Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene is a national nonprofit project that uses art + community gatherings to engage the public in addressing the leading cause of bird mortality in the United States—bird building collisions. Every year, over 1 billion birds die after colliding with glass in the United States. At our crafting workshops, we lead community members in creating art, while educating them about the many solutions to prevent bird collisions, like treating windows and dimming unnecessary lights at night.

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Help us make 10,863 birds!​

  

At hundreds of public art workshops across the U.S. and Canada, we are crowdsourcing the handcrafting of 10,836 bird sculptures, to replicate the exact number of birds that were found by the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors in Chicago in 2023 after hitting glass. These fabric artworks  will be sewn into a huge 300-foot-long ‘carpet’ of birds that will become a travelling art installation, to raise awareness about the toll of building collisions on local bird populations. Our workshops also educate participants about easy solutions to prevent future collisions — like treating windows with proper decals.

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Our goal is to inspire a transformation in how people relate to birds – to ensure that our human-built spaces are welcoming places for birds and people. We reconnect people to the love of handcrafting in community and save bird lives— one bird and one window at a time.