Nature Regina unites enthusiasts to document and rescue birds that hit windows

Alex Kozroski · CBC News

· Posted: May 16, 2025 6:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Nature Regina members made their rounds past week to find feathered friends who fell unfortunate to model collisions, a important hazard to vertebrate populations successful municipality areas.

The patrol was timed to enactment up with highest migratory patterns of galore species.

The programme has collected 308 birds since its conception successful 2020, galore of which person been donated to the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. In that time, SaltHaven West has been capable to rescue 60 birds acknowledgment to the program.

Last week's patrol reported uncovering 27 birds from 11 species, with 3 rescues.

Jeffrey Gamble, VP of Nature Regina, said the extremity of the programme is to summation consciousness of the information windows airs to birds.

"It's benignant of heartbreaking to find birds downtown, but astatine the aforesaid time, it's rewarding erstwhile you tin rescue some," helium said. "Most birds that collide with windows don't survive."

According to Wetlands for Tomorrow, Saskatchewan has mislaid 50 per cent of its wetlands. The birds that trust connected them are besides successful decline, with immoderate taxon having mislaid much than 90 per cent of their Canadian populations.

A full of 50 antithetic taxon person been documented successful Regina done the model program.

"We hope to fto the wide nationalist cognize this contented tin beryllium addressed rather easily," said Gamble. "The astir elemental solution we person recovered is Feather Friendly model markers."

These model markers permission small, innocuous squares crossed solid to guarantee birds tin spot the coagulated surface.

Gamble said that during the migration play successful North America, a cardinal birds dice each twelvemonth aft colliding with windows. He estimates that in Regina, 1 per cent of model collisions hap astatine high-rise buildings, 10 per cent at low-rise buildings and 90 per cent in residential areas.