Hunters and other conservationists can lead by example when it comes to reducing window collisions with wood cocks, other birds

In the cold of February, a bird was found dead on the sidewalk of Philadelphia, killed after colliding with a building window. It was an American woodcock, or timberdoodle – an iconic game bird of eastern North America, adored by nature lovers and hunters alike.
According to the banding and encounter data managed by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Lab, part of the Eastern Ecological Science Center in Maryland, this woodcock was a female, age 2, banded in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, in January 2023, just one year before its death.

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