I stepped out the door to the bakery and paused. A faint bugling. Yes, cranes! Overhead! Looked up and saw perhaps twenty birds, flying high and heading south. But this wasn’t Chisago County and those weren’t Sandhill Cranes. I was on the island of Gotland in the...

An estimated one billion birds in the United States die from window collisions each year. That’s a shocking number and it makes window strikes one of the top three killers of birds, along with habitat destruction and outdoor cats. Birds fly into windows because they...