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Bird Safety Window Films

Around one billion birds die annually flying into office buildings; bird safety film can save their lives

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Commercial Window Shield is one of the country’s most experienced installers of bird safety window films

Installation of bird safety window film requires a special expertise and experience. Commercial Window Shield has been a leading bird safety window film installer over the past decade as demand for the film amid a catastrophic rise in bird deaths has increased.

Why Install Bird Safety Window Film

  • With a proliferation of new office buildings in cities in the path of bird flyways, the number of birds crashing into buildings and dying has dramatically increased.
  • Building glass and windows can appear highly reflective or completely transparent, causing birds to mistake the space as a safe place to fly.
  • Most birds’ first encounters with glass are fatal as they collide with it at full flight speed.
  • The uniqueness of bird vision is a contributing factor to this problem: Most birds’ eyes are at the sides of their heads.

How Bird Safety Film Works and its Effectiveness

  • Birds can be protected by marking the glass in some way so they perceive the windows as barriers and avoid them 
  • One easy and cost-effective way to do this is to install bird safety window film on all glass that is located in bird fly zones
  • These films usually have horizontal or vertical patterns – or sometimes dots – that make the glass visible to birds
  • The Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, once the deadliest building in the city for birds, saw deaths decline 90 percent after having bird safety film installed

What Our Customers Say

“We Are Fortunate To Have Commercial Window Shield As A Contractor”.

John Wilson,

The JBG Companies, Techworld, Washington, D.C.

Bird Safety Window Film FAQs

Ornithologists estimate that 330 million to one billion birds die annually in the United States due to glass collisions, fatalities that can be prevented by the adoption of several emerging building strategies, including anti-bird strike film installation.

Depending on the location, light conditions, and time of day, building glass and windows can appear highly reflective or completely transparent. By appearing similar to open sky, trees, and vegetation, it causes birds to mistake the space as a safe place to fly.

Bird safety window films are specifically designed and engineered to allow birds to see reflective windows that would otherwise appear invisible. The result is saving the lives of untold thousands of birds and preventing costly damage to your building’s windows.

Compared to installing new windows with bird safety qualities, installing anti-bird strike film on your office windows is the most cost-effective way to make your glass safe.

New York City passed legislation in December, 2019, requiring bird friendly windows on all new building construction and any extensive renovations of existing buildings. The city of San Francisco, a number of smaller California towns and the state of Minnesota have passed similar legislation. The trend toward anti-bird strike office window safety measures is likely to continue over the next few years.

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