Join us on Wednesday, September 23, for a new season of Eastside Audubon program night speakers. We’re moving to Wednesday evenings at the Redmond Library,15990 NE 85th Street, thanks to a year-long agreement with the library allowing us to use their meeting room each month. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the speaker’s presentation will start at 6:30.

September’s presentation will be about protecting birds from colliding with windows. Bird-building collisions are among the top contributors to the decline in net bird populations in North America, killing over one billion birds a year in the United States alone. Join University of Washington researcher and bird-safe design expert, Judy Bowes, to learn about the Pacific Northwest species affected by bird-window collisions and how you can protect birds in your community by advocating for bird-safe buildings and landscapes. Judy will also demonstrate how community scientists can contribute to collision research using her mobile app, Avian Impact.

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.

Location:

Redmond Public Library
15990 Northeast 85th Street
Redmond, WA, 98052

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