Kids help take down ‘death trap’ glass windows in Nan’ao
Kids help take down ‘death trap’ glass windows in Nan’ao
2025-09-23
The Nan’ao branch of Taiwan’s Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency has a spacious park surrounded by shady trees. But in recent years many protected wild birds have died after colliding with the building’s glass windows. To prevent further crashes, children were enlisted to draw dotted patterns on the glasses .
This is a gorgeous multicolored fairy pitta. This is a common emerald dove, with plumage shimmering in dark green and blue. These are two light-vented bulbuls lying on the ground. They are all often-seen protected birds in Taiwan and cute frequenters of Nan’ao’s wooded mountains. They should be soaring freely in the sky. Instead they are lying on the ground, dying after bumping into an invisible barrier.
The transparent barrier is this completely clean and bright window glass. In order to prevent these beautiful lives ending in a collision with a window, children are using paint pens to draw dots on the windows, one by one.
Fu Cheng-i
Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency
During the day, it’s just like a mirror. The reflection gives an impression of a continuous forest. Birds here like this so the problem of collisions is severe. We’ve made a dot matrix pattern on the windows to prevent birds from hitting the glass.
This is a campaign to prevent bird killings caused by window collisions jointly organized by the Nan’Ao branch of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency and the Society of Wilderness. Scores of children aged 11 to 14 volunteered to come here, making themselves the patron saints of birds. They used oil-based paint markers to draw dotted patterns on the clear glass, highly durable but also easily erasable with alcohol if there is a change in plans.
Fu Cheng-i
Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency
The spacing is about 3 to 5 centimeters. The spots are equidistant from each other in a lattice. They used a ready-made diamond pattern, a grid.
In addition to painting white dots on the windows, the children also deployed their creativity and added depictions of plants and animals, to make the windows not only safe for birds but also cute.
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宜蘭南澳防"野鳥窗殺" 林保署攜手學子手繪白點陣
2025-09-23
農業部林業及自然保育署，宜蘭分署南澳工作站，園區寬敞舒適，更被林蔭環繞，不過近年發生多起野鳥撞擊玻璃傷亡意外，宜蘭分署聯合荒野保護協會，投入窗殺防治，在門窗玻璃上手繪白點陣，避免野鳥再誤撞。
這一隻是五彩斑斕的八色鳥，這是羽毛閃著碧綠藍光的翠綠鳩，還有這一張，兩隻躺在地上的白頭翁，他們都是台灣常見的保育鳥類，也是南澳山林的嬌客，本該自由自在地翱翔天際。卻都躺在地上奄奄一息，因為全都撞上了一扇扇"透明陷阱"，再也飛不起來。
透明陷阱，就是這一整面乾淨明亮的窗戶玻璃，為了讓這些美麗的生命不再葬身窗戶，小朋友們拿著油漆筆，一筆一畫，點出"防撞密碼"。
[[南澳工作站主任 傅正儀]]
“針對白天來講，這剛好就是一面鏡子。鏡子的反射，它就剛好是連成一氣呵成的森林，鳥在這邊看到更喜歡，所以牠的撞擊會更嚴重。我們的窗戶上面做了一些點陣，然後避免鳥類來會撞擊到玻璃窗砂。”
這是一場由南澳工作站和荒野保護協會，攜手組織的"窗殺防治行動"，大批11到14歲的小朋友們，自願來到這裡，化身飛鳥的守護神。透過油性油漆筆，在頭明玻璃上繪製的點陣，除了耐久性高以外，未來如果有變動的可能，酒精也可以輕易擦除。
[[南澳工作站主任 傅正儀]]
“間隔大概是在3到5公分左右這樣子一個距離，那他做等距離的格子的點，他們是用那個現成的菱格紋，那個網格。”
除了在窗戶上畫滿白點陣，還發揮創意，加上動物和花草圖案，讓防治設施更顯得俏皮可愛。
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