Architectural solutions can make buildings bird-safe from the design stage. Understanding what works enables architects, builders, and homeowners to prevent bird strikes.
Bird-safe building design represents a preventive welfare approach that eliminates suffering before it occurs, at the design and construction stage. Retrofitting existing buildings is possible but more costly and complex than building bird-safe from the start. The technical solutions exist and are commercially available. The barrier is predominantly awareness and the perception that bird safety conflicts with aesthetic goals — which modern bird-safe glass design has substantially resolved by creating solutions that are visually appealing to humans while being detectable by birds.