Again I found a confused Lincoln’s Sparrow trapped on the east side of the building. It made me wonder if it actually hurts these birds to fly the “wrong” way when they’re on migration. It’d be so easy for this bird to escape by simply flying about 100 m north and proceeding around the NRC. But when I flush it, it flies E-W and S – it won’t go north, to freedom.
Bird-Window Collisions at OK State
"Birds of wide open prairies and damp, evergreen forests have taken their final breath on the sidewalk of a modern building on our urban campus." ~ T. O'Connell, 2019
Bird-Window Collisions at OK State 