Bird Safe Portland: Developing a Bird‐friendly Buildings and Dark Sky Campaign

The National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in collaboration with the Urban Wildlife Conservation Program (UWCP) is pleased to announce its third webinar, sponsored by the Urban Bird Treaty Program (UBT Program). This webinar series is open to all who are interested in participating, so, please forward to your own partner networks.

SPEAKER: Mary Coolidge, Portland Audubon

DESCRIPTION: Up to 1 billion birds die in window collisions every year in the United States alone, at all scales of development, from single family residential to low rise commercial buildings to high rises. Moreover, light pollution from artificial light at night contributes not only to collisions in migrating bird populations, but impacts behavior, movement, reproduction in many wildlife species. Today, over a dozen North American cities have developed Bird Safe Building standards, including San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Portland and Toronto, paving the way for similar efforts in other municipalities. Many cities, counties and states are also implementing sustainability initiatives to address climate change and reduce energy-efficiency demands, which presents opportunities to integrate lights out and dark skies initiatives that protect the ecological function of our cities at night. Portland has been a UBT City since 2003, and Audubon’s Bird Safe Program has been generously funded by a National Fish & Wildlife Foundation grant to educate the public as well as architects, landscape architects, designers, planners, and elected officials about these issues to ensure that we are designing our built landscape for ecological resilience into the future. From data collection and development of a voluntary Resource Guide, to legislative advocacy to integrate Bird Safe measures into the city of Portland’s Green Building Policy and zoning code, we have been on this road for a while. We will discuss the tactics, best practices, resources, collaborations and key stakeholders used to develop an urban hazard reduction campaign.
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The UWCP webinar series is intended as a resource for conservation professionals (i.e., biologists, educators, communicators, interpreters, law enforcement officers, and natural resource managers) in the Service and in partner organizations who seek innovative community-based solutions for wildlife conservation. This webinar series aims to support the diverse work of its members, who work to establish and strengthen relationships with urban audiences to protect and conserve our wildlife resources, by taking a “deeper dive” into a variety of topics identified during the 2018 “Community Connections Academy”. Webinars will showcase successful approaches, tools, and resources used by members to advance progress in reaching the goals established in the UWCP
Standards of Excellence. This series also provides a venue to share experiences and connect with others in the UWCP community.
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WEBEX INFORMATION

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Recordings of previous UWCP webinars can be found in the NCTC Video Gallery at: The Urban Wildlife Conservation Program Webinar Series.

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