Good morning!
May 1st is the next Monday Night Seminar at the Cornell Lab. Our speaker, Dr. Christine Sheppard from the American Bird Conservancy, will also be giving a special lunchtime lecture earlier in the day. See below for information on both events. Hope you can join us! We will be streaming the EVENING seminar live. Bookmark http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars for quick access on Monday evening. -Marc *May 1, Noon–1:00 p.m.* Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center Auditorium *Speaker:* Dr. Christine Sheppard, Bird Collisions Campaign Manager, American Bird Conservancy *The Science Behind Bird Collisions and Bird-Friendly Recommendations* When Christine Sheppard first started started working with the American Bird Conservancy in 2009 to raise awareness about bird mortality from window collisions, she quickly discovered that there was virtually no science or basis for most recommendations. A monitoring program she coordinated for the Wildlife Conservation Society Center for Global Conservation, designed to incorporate the latest bird-friendly recommendations, was the first investigation to see whether those recommendations actually worked. Many did not. Christine has been digging into the problem ever since and will share her finding from many studies, most not directly about collisions of any sort, that have important applications for explaining what solutions work and why. *May 1, 7:30pm – 9:00pm* *Speaker: *Dr. Christine Sheppard, Bird Collisions Campaign Manager, American Bird Conservancy Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center Auditorium *Bird Mortality From Collisions With Glass: What we’ve learned, what we need to know, what you can do* You probably think that you can see glass – but long ago, you learned a concept – glass is an invisible barrier or reflective illusion – that birds never understand. As many as a billion birds die each year in the U.S., nearly half of them on home windows. In the last decade, many scientists have contributed pieces to the puzzle of how birds really see the world. This has established a basis for developing new solutions for existing glass, as well as materials and design strategies for creating new, bird-friendly buildings. Most architects, urban planners – most people – don’t understand why birds are important and how big the collisions problem is. Virtually everyone has seen or heard a bird hit glass, but think of it as a rare occurrence. Dr. Christine Sheppard will discuss the tools we have to solve the problem and the big job ahead getting those solutions implemented. However, this is one conservation issue where individuals can take immediate action and see immediate results. Marc Devokaitis Public Information Specialist Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
