Window strikes killing birds at Riverview Plaza on the Trenton Waterfront

WCAS is dismayed to learn of ongoing, significant avian mortality from birds striking  the new Riverview Plaza office buildings’ vast, glass walls. Birds cannot distinguish between the reflections of sky, trees, and shrubbery in glass and actual vegetation. The issue is compounded by the siting of these virtually all glass buildings along the Delaware River, a natural wildlife corridor just up river from the Abbott Marshlands Important Bird Area.

The problem is particularly acute during southbound migration along the Atlantic Flyway in the Fall months of August, Sepetember and October. Strikes will pick up again during Spring’s northbound migration, often along waterways that serve as traditional migration corridors.

Best information on bird strikes is from the American Bird Conservancy.  See #5 for links to bird friendly building designs and  home friendly solutions. The ABC “Bird Friendly Building Design” is the best starting point for solutions.