City Bird
Every year, millions of birds are killed when they fly into windows. We created City Bird to bring awareness of this important issue to our community and to create a citizen science project that monitors bird-window collisions in the Triangle area of NC, USA. You can support us by volunteering and following us on social media. City Bird was created in Aug 2022. Our project aims to provide critical data needed to convince policymakers and building managers to make buildings safer for birds.
Collision tally: n = 415
College campuses
NC State University: n = 125 (109 dead, 15 alive). Latest: Common Yellowthroat on 09/23/2024.
UNC-Chapel Hill: n = 192 (184 dead, 8 alive). Latest: Gray Catbird on 09/26/2024.
Meredith College: n = 35 (33 dead, 2 alive). Latest: American Robin on 09/26/2024.
Locations outside the above 3 campuses
Orange County: n = 24 (22 dead, 2 alive) Latest: Wood Thrush on 09/22/2024
Durham County: n = 17 (15 dead, 2 alive) Latest: Swainson’s Thrush on 10/01/2024
Wake County: n = 21 (20 dead, 1 alive) Latest: Swainson’s Thrush on 09/25/2024
Chatham County: n = 1 (1 dead, 0 alive) Latest: American Redstart on 10/01/2024
Data from 09/20/2022 to 10/01/2024.
Note: the data for locations outside of the 3 campuses are mostly from iNaturalist and incidental reports (no structured collision surveys) and is a very underestimated number of collisions.
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