I found an SY female Indigo Bunting this morning on the north side of the NRC. She allowed me to pick her up, squawking about that a bit, but I’m not optimistic about her recovery. Generally, if a wild bird with no other obvious external injury allows me to pick it up, I assume it’s got things wrong on the inside that are irreparable.
I moved her to a secluded spot in dense vegetation by Cordell Hall with a clear sightline to the north, but I will count her as a mortality given her condition.
Bird-Window Collisions at OK State 