LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – Millions if not billions of birds die every year from crashing into windows.

“We hear a thud at the window and there’s a dead bird on the other side because it just crashed into into our window,” Stefan Karkuff, an avian recovery biologist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, said.

Leading to more places putting bird protective window tape on their windows.

“Putting these dots on the windows allow birds to see the glass and and avoid it,” Ted Nichols II, the president of the Lancaster County Bird Club, said.

Those dots get in the bird’s sightline signaling the window isn’t a continuation of the sky.

“They’ll see those dots and that will keep them from flying into that glass and hurting themselves,” Karkuff said.

There’s also an ultraviolet version of glass to help steer the birds clear. It’s a little pricier but doesn’t hinder people’s views.

Nichols is on a mission to get protective glass across Lancaster County.

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“When Nichols came to us to talk to us about the opportunity to put on anti-bird collision adhesive stickers on our window in the observation area, we were thrilled by the possibility,” director of development Scott Downs with the North Museum said.

Downs believes the addition will protect the feathered friends.

“A big part of the North Museum’s mission is preservation and what better way to represent preservation than by saving birds and keeping them alive,” Downs said.

Nichols says 44% of all bird-window collisions happen between the first and third level of buildings. The other 56%, the fourth floor up.

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