Bird Flying Into Your Window Symbolism & How To Prevent Collisions
Updated 2022.04.06, and just as an FYI, this post contains affiliate links. In this post, learn about when a bird flies into your window - symbolically what it means and what to do to prevent future collisions
When a bird flies into your window, symbolically, it can mean a few things. It can also be a cue to biological signs in your area. In this article, we are going to discuss both -
As humans living amongst nature, fortunately, and unfortunately, we get to be in the presence of many births and deaths every day.
Life is a circle. While here, we experience everything from seeds that germinate in the spring to mosses dying off in the summer, to the loss of our loved ones to the birth of new loved ones.
The most challenging death events often deal with those associated with animals because they are most like us.
Further, birds are well known for having a connection to the Spirit World due to their visual abilities to see things that we cannot. So typically, people do consider birds to be one of the more spiritually in tune animals. However, many of them are in tune, just in other ways.
Birds can fly into windows repeatedly for a variety of reasons.
I've been asked a lot about robins, so let's start this post with this specific species of bird.
Robins themselves, in the birding world, are very well known to go after their reflection, and fly into windows and generally get confused.
This happens especially in and around their breeding season, which is usually anywhere between April to July. Think of it as a rut, but for Robins.
Robins doing this could be due to hormones, emotions, or even just the angle of the sun in the sky that makes reflections harder for bird eyes to grasp at this time of year.
If you live somewhere, where there is a lot of wildland interface, you may see some of these behaviors more than usual. If you can track it to a specific time of year, having a bird fly into a window, even if it happens repeatedly, maybe more biological.
Even still, anything that happens is always sending you a message. So this event is giving you some sort of information, regardless of what is causing it - a spiritual message, an intellectual message, however, you want to define it.
In the interface between wildlife and humans, which is everywhere these days, it's just getting harder and harder to avoid these types of interactions.
Symbolically when something like this happens repeatedly, when things like this start to happen to you in circles, pay attention.
Symbolism of a bird flying into your window
Birds Flying Into Windows. Symbolism, Biology & How To Prevent Future Collisions. Photo of Robin on ledge by Kyle Johnston on Unsplash with text overlay.
If birds start staring in your window and it keeps happening time and time again, look into processing the accumulated experiences as a possible calling.
If you always happen to find yourself in the presence of animals who need your support, it could be a sign of a life calling in animal care.
People who have repeat experiences with a specific thing are
Often breaking patterns
Having the Universe attempting to reveal your gifts
Becoming aware of their purpose
Such experiences like this can build up to point the way.
An accumulation of experiences, can tell you and let you know this is what you're supposed to do next with your career or in life.
Birds passing around you may be a sign you are meant to help birds transition to Spirit.
Helping a soul transition into death (mammalian or otherwise) is a profession called death midwiving.
A Death Midwife, also called psychopomp, is a profession common in the shamanistic community.
Instead of bringing a soul into this world, in Death Midwiving, you're helping a soul's transition out of this world. People who do this for their calling do tremendous help for their communities.
They reduce the population of earthbound spirits lingering around on earth. They help the living who sense those types of Spirits lead more peaceful lives. They provide restitution for the afterlife by preparing the living for what to expect in death.
They also make the whole death experience easier for the person or animal dying themselves. For the loved ones who remain, they ease their worry.
When you bring a death midwife into the dying process, wondering whether someone made it over okay is never a worry.
So, whether what you are experiencing is a biological message or a spiritual message, the experience may symbolize
A future in animal care
Your gift is helping animal souls transition
A purpose in caring for birds
If you have an injured bird, if you have a wildlife rescue within driving distance, take the animal to your nearest rescue.
Follow the below tips only in the circumstance if you happen to have no access to an official wild animal rescue shelter.
Steps to care for an injured bird and reduce future collisions
Photo of yellow bird on branch by Connor Martin from Pexels
#1
Move it out of the sun.
#2
Put it in a cozy box off the ground, away from predators, and where it can fly off safely. An old shoebox will do just fine. If it's raining, make sure there's a cover.
#3
Provide a little food and a water source. I like to offer a few dried mealworms myself as a bit of protein for the road.
#4
If it's cold out, provide warm bedding, an old flannel shirt is just fine. Just make sure something you're okay with your bird pooping in it before flying off, as many birds will lighten their load before taking flight.
#5
If you notice a broken wing or that the bird is not flying off after an hour, call your local wildlife rehabilitation center or a veterinarian if you haven't already.
See what they suggest or if they can take over from there.
Most of the time, a bird who flies into a window is just stunned. They eventually fly off and recover, and you find yourself returning to your shoebox with an empty nest, a stained shirt, and a job well done.
To reduce future window collisions, consider getting those bird decal window stickers you see at rural hardware stores. I have a few myself, and they do help decrease collisions. I've noticed a significant decrease in the number of window collisions I've experienced since getting mine, and I only have them in a few areas.
A series of refractive objects or window decals with non-predatory imagery usually is excellent, too, if you do want to continue to have birds around.
Whether you choose something refractive or a decal, if you want to continue being a bird-friendly habitat, choose something for your windows that helps the birds both:
Identify there's a solid surface there
Decrease the reflection back into the forest
Feeders, as well as decals and refractors, can communicate a "this is a wall" message.
Helpful if you want to get across boundaries to young birds learning about what windows are, all while continuing to create a welcoming atmosphere for your forest friends.
To recap, if a bird flies into a window
Tips for caring for a bird that flew into a window. Photo of Robin on ledge by Kyle Johnston on Unsplash
If you keep having run-ins with animals who need your help, it could be a calling or a sign of your purpose
Most birds recover
You can decrease collisions by sending wall signals to birds flying around, such as through decals or window feeders
Bird collisions can be meaningful, though collisions can decrease while still preserving interactions with wildlife.
They can indicate a path working with or caring for birds, or a purpose working with birds on a spiritual level, such as in shamanism.
If you follow any of the steps in this post, know that rewarding interactions with birds will likely continue if it is your path.
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