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 = 505
College campuses
NC State University: n = 140 (123 dead, 17 alive). Latest: Hermit Thrush on 11/14/2024.
UNC-Chapel Hill: n = 239 (227 dead, 12 alive). Latest: White-throated Sparrow on 02/16/2025.
Meredith College: n = 38 (36 dead, 2 alive). Latest: Mourning Dove on 10/09/2024.
Locations outside the above 3 campuses
Orange County: n = 29 (27 dead, 2 alive) Latest: Blackpoll Warbler on 10/25/2024
Durham County: n = 32 (30 dead, 2 alive) Latest: Dark-eyed Junco on 11/05/2024
Wake County: n = 26 (24 dead, 2 alive) Latest: Brown-headed Cowbird on 10/16/2024
Chatham County: n = 1 (1 dead, 0 alive) Latest: American Redstart on 10/01/2024
Data from 09/20/2022 to 02/16/2025.
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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