Other BirdSavers examples – Our Habitat Garden

Here’s a variation that attaches the cord to plastic adhesive hooks instead of drilling holes in a piece of wood. This shows how the cord is attached.

Note how reflective the windows are. No wonder birds were crashing into them! These closely-spaced cords signal to the birds that it’s something to avoid.

Zen curtain with plastic hooks in process ©Janet Allen

Finished Zen curtain with plastic hooks — Zen curtain with plastic hooks in process ©Janet Allen

This is the first BirdSaver Zen curtain I saw. A fellow HGCNY member made it herself.

A DIY Zen curtain made by an HGCNY member ©Janet Allen

The following DIY project, found at a home in North Carolina, used chains instead of para-cord. Here, too, you can see that without the chains a bird could be deceived by the reflections of trees and sky in the windows.

Here’s how we made our own BirdSaver.

Resources

Acopian BirdSavers:
- More photos of BirdSavers used in homes and institutions
American Bird Conservancy:
- Advances in window safety come to Cornell Lab