Earlier this month, radar tracked nearly 1.9 million birds crossing King County in a single night. They flew over the same lit windows and rooftops that kill more than a billion birds a year in the United States, more than any predator, storm, or disease. Most of those deaths are preventable.
UW researcher Judy Bowes has spent four years learning how. She is coming to Redmond to show you which Eastside birds are hit hardest and what works, starting at your own house.
Redmond City Councilmember Sayna Parsi, an Eastside Audubon member who helped lead our Lights Out efforts, will join us for a brief update on local prevention.
About the Speaker
Judy Bowes' PhD research focuses on protecting wildlife through sustainable design, particularly bird species and bird-building collisions. She's the Principal Investigator of Bird Friendly Campus, based at the University of Washington, where she has studied how to make campuses more bird-friendly for over four years. By researching dangerous designs that increase collision risk, Judy develops architectural and landscape assessment systems to prevent collisions at and around buildings and other built structures. From this research, Judy drafted UW's Bird-Friendly Design Standards, which require all new UW buildings to be bird-safe. Judy also developed the app Avian Impact to track and map collisions and to offer real-time design solutions for community scientists and designers.
New Location:
Program Nights are moving to Wednesday evenings at the Redmond Library, 15990 NE 85th Street. A year-long agreement with the library gives us their meeting room each month. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the presentation begins at 6:30.
Redmond Public Library
15990 Northeast 85th Street
Redmond, WA, 98052
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