Bird Strike...

Spray it with oven cleaner, wait 30 minutes and wipe off with a rag. Don't allow it to run down onto the painted surface.

I gave a bird a Coke. Didn't clean my windshield, flew away instead.

Just FYI, it was a big A$$ Turkey Vulture in Titusville, FL. We stopped at a local campground and then drove back to make sure that SOB was DEAD, DEAD, DEAD. The wife was sitting in the pax seat and wanted to see the carcass!

If birds go on strike what will eat the bugs?

Coca-Cola......that's some strong stuff! Or, you can try some Tang...yeah, the same orange drink that NASA sent up with their astronauts. When my wife and I were first married, we lived in a small rental house that had very hard well-water...stained everything! Couldn't wash clothes in it, and barely could stand to bathe in it. DEFINITELY didn't drink it! We had a small, portable dishwasher that hooked up to the kitchen faucet. After several uses with the hard water, it became extremely stained inside...the white lining was practically muddy looking. We tried everything to clean it,, even tried scraping with a razor, but the inside was more like it was permanently stained. We had someone recommend putting Tang in, instead of dishwashing powder and running it without dishes. So, we poured us a couple of adult beverages, pulled up a couple chairs, put in the Tang, turned it on and watched it run for the next hour or so. When it finished, it was just as clean and sparkling inside as the day we bought it! I do not drink that stuff anymore.......

Perhaps the bird was a female with an egg inside? Egg, if left on paint, will damage/etch into the finish; perhaps egg "etched" into the glass?

Dampen a cloth with lacquer thinner. That stuff removes anything.

"Bird be gone". Buhahahah.

Jeese, Bill, that looks a bit dangerous. Just think if it had made it through the window.

Microscratches? Hmm, did not think of that. I will look into it.

A big a## pheasant? And no damage? Whoa. Interesting. (See Bill.Satellite's post above - and it was a sparrow, pretty sure). Consider yourself lucky.

I was in my class C and a pheasant flew directly into the round over area above the windshield. It fell dead to the ground without even a wiggle. I thought there would be damage but it took it just fine.

It was an Epoxy bird. Seldom seen but hard to forget.

There are Epoxy bugs too, they are a little more common.