Bird Collisions: Hazardous Features and Easy Solutions 240409
Channel: Climate Action Evanston
Date: 19/04/2024

ABOUT THE TOPIC
It's bird migration time in Chicagoland. Let's give birds safe passage through our region. Nearly a billion birds perish each year as a result of window strikes. They see the sky or tree in a window reflection and fly towards it, dying at the solid pane.  For decades, Annette Prince of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors has collected about 11,000 birds a year, helping the Field Museum build an extraordinary profile of bird collisions in our area, and saving thousands of injured songbirds. She will discuss the perils facing our migratory birds, the buildings where they collide in Chicago and Evanston and why.  She shares easy steps we can each take to help them find safe passage through Chicagoland. It’s a concern only heightened in recent years as our population of birds declines while our reliance on glass grows as a foundation element in architectural design.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Annette Prince has worked on local and national conservation projects as well as wildlife education and rehabilitation programs over the last thirty years. She joined the grass-roots project - Chicago Bird Collision Monitors – in 2004 and became its director in 2005 helping to advance its mission to rescue, educate and advocate for the protection of birds impacted by the dangers they face in urban areas. Annette has served on the board of the Chicago Bird Alliance (formerly Chicago Audubon Society) for 20 years.  She heads the Bird Friendly Chicago initiative to promote bird-friendly building design in Chicago. Annette is an avid bird watcher who has traveled to all 50 states, Canada, Mexico and Central America to enjoy birds and their natural habitats.

ABOUT THE 2024 NURTURING NATURE SPEAKER SERIES 
Organized by Climate Action Evanston's Natural Habitat Evanston Program, and presented in collaboration with the Evanston Public Library, Rotary International and the Evanston Ecology Center, the Series consists of 10 presentations, one per month, kicked off in February with this presentation and running through November. Learn more at: 
https://www.climateactionevanston.org/natural-habitat/nurturingnature