Collision course: window strikes, dead birds, and what to do about it

The windows are waiting: a silent death trap for healthy birds, an untimely end to so many possible futures. Window strikes are thought to kill over a BILLION birds a year just in the United States. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This month’s podcast travels from Mexico to Montana, USA, covering the massive mortality caused by window collisions and the range of simple, affordable, and effective solutions that are available, from do-it-yourself options like Acopian BirdSavers and white paint pens to commercial products like Feather Friendly and CollidEscape. With your help, and mine, we can solve the window collision problem.I depend on the support of you, my listeners, to continue doing this work. Please share these podcasts, leave a rating, and, if you’re able, support me through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wildwithnature. Thank you!!!You can find the written, illustrated version of this story here: https://wildwithnature.com/2026/07/01/window-collisions-dead-birds-solutions/A condensed, written version of this story in English first appeared in the July-August 2025 issue of Montana Outdoors. My Spanish translation appears here for the first time. Special thanks to all of the people who helped me with this story: Hilary Turner, Stephen Turner, Lou Ann Harris, Édgar del Valle, David Ramírez, Manuel Grosselet, Ruth Swenson, Jeff Acopian of Acopian BirdSavers, Paul Groleau and Ankur Khurana of Feather Friendly.