A research agenda for urban biodiversity in the global extinction crisis

S Knapp, MFJ Aronson, E Carpenter… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rapid urbanization and the global loss of biodiversity necessitate the development of a
research agenda that addresses knowledge gaps in urban ecology that will inform policy …

Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions

SR Loss, BV Li, LC Horn, MR Mesure… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bird–window collisions (BWCs) are a major threat to avian populations, annually causing up
to one billion bird deaths in the US alone and untold numbers of fatalities worldwide. Until …

Factors influencing bird-building collisions in the downtown area of a major North American city

SR Loss, S Lao, JW Eckles, AW Anderson, RB Blair… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Bird-building collisions are the largest source of avian collision mortality in North America.
Despite a growing literature on bird-building collisions, little research has been conducted in …

Rehabilitation outcomes of bird-building collision victims in the Northeastern United States

A Kornreich, D Partridge, M Youngblood, K Parkins - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Building collisions are a leading threat to wild birds; however, only those that are found dead
or fatally wounded are included in current mortality estimates, with injured or stunned birds …

Concentration of a widespread breeding population in a few critically important nonbreeding areas: Migratory connectivity in the Prothonotary Warbler

CM Tonra, MT Hallworth, TJ Boves, J Reese… - The Condor, 2019 - academic.oup.com
One of the greatest challenges to informed conservation of migratory animals is elucidating
spatiotemporal variation in distributions. Without such information, it is impossible to …

More than mortality: Consequences of human activity on migrating birds extend beyond direct mortality

CE Nemes, SA Cabrera-Cruz… - Ornithological …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Birds must contend with an array of anthropogenic threats during their migratory journeys.
Many migrants are killed due to encounters with artificial light, introduced species …

Correlates of bird collisions with buildings across three North American countries

JA Elmore, SB Hager, BJ Cosentino… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Collisions with buildings cause up to 1 billion bird fatalities annually in the United States and
Canada. However, efforts to reduce collisions would benefit from studies conducted at large …

Building façade-level correlates of bird–window collisions in a small urban area

CS Riding, TJ O'connell, SR Loss - The Condor, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Urbanization increasingly exposes birds to multiple sources of direct anthropogenic
mortality. Collisions with buildings, and windows in particular, are a top bird mortality source …

Bird-building collision risk: An assessment of the collision risk of birds with buildings by phylogeny and behavior using two citizen-science datasets

KS Nichols, T Homayoun, J Eckles, RB Blair - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Bird collisions with buildings are the second largest anthropogenic source of direct mortality
for birds (365–988 million birds killed annually in the United States). Recent research …

Field-testing effectiveness of window markers in reducing bird-window collisions

GJ Riggs, CM Barton, CS Riding, TJ O'Connell… - Urban …, 2023 - Springer
Bird-window collisions are a major source of human-caused mortality for which there are
multiple mitigation and prevention options available. Despite growing availability of products …