[ FEBRUARY 26TH / 9:30 AM EST ]
VIRTUAL
VIRTUAL
bird Safe Campus Summit 2025
Connecting and sharing knowledge to advance bird safe campus programs across Canada and the United States.
WATCH RECORDINGSRESOURCE DRIVE COMING SOON!
Connecting and sharing knowledge to advance bird safe campus programs across Canada and the United States.
WATCH RECORDINGSRESOURCE DRIVE COMING SOON!Join researchers, volunteers, faculty and professionals working to address bird-window collisions at post-secondary institutions across Canada and the United States. Bird Safe Campus Summit is the first of its kind virtual meeting to share breakthroughs, best practices and create a lasting network for collaboration to make all of our campuses safer for birds!
Hear from experts and peers to get new ideas. See how others address similar challenges at other post-secondary institutions, and gain fresh perspectives on your own work. Share experiences and learn together.
Connect with the bird-window collision community. Build relationships that can last beyond the event. Help grow your network for future opportunities.
Help protect birds from the second leading anthropogenic cause of death: bird-window collisions.
Walk away with strategies and tools to empower you to tackle the problem of bird-window collisions at your campus with confidence.
Jim Cubie is a longtime public interest advocate with extensive experience in organizing citizen groups, drafting major legislation and conducting policy analysis. During his 14-year tenure in the U.S. Senate as Chief Counsel of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jim played a key role in the creation of a 2.9-million-acre Wetland Reserve Program—the largest wetland restoration initiative in U.S. history, which significantly contributed to the recovery of wetland bird populations.
Dr. Klem is a professor of biology at Muhlenberg College, where his pioneering research has highlighted the serious threat that glass facades pose to bird populations. His recent estimates suggest that up to 3.5 billion birds die annually in the U.S. due to window collisions. In recognition of his significant contributions to conservation, Dr. Klem was recently awarded the Walt Pomeroy Conservation Award by the Pennsylvania Audubon Council.
Brendon is completing his doctoral research on biological, technological and policy aspects of preventing bird-building collisions. During his studies, Brendon worked with FLAP Canada on various projects spanning advocacy, research and communications. Brendon coordinates a local Bird Friendly City team and chairs a municipal advisory committee in London, Ontario, and successfully lobbied Western University and its affiliate colleges to treat over a dozen of their buildings for bird safety.
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Kick off the summit meeting with Jonathan and Vanessa.
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Take a break and network with fellow attendees.
Arts-Based Communication for Outreach: How to Ethically Engage & Collaborate with Artists to Increase Bird-Safe
Bird Safe Guelph: Tackling window collisions in Guelph using the scientific method and public outreach
Lights Out, College Station!
Safe Skies Maryland Partners with Howard Community College to Save Birds Statewide
Bird-Safe Initiatives on the University of Windsor’s Campus
Collision risks identified, partially fixed, but no policy change: The University of Utah experience so far
Counting the Invisible: Species Vulnerability and Using Trials to Estimate Collision Mortality on a West Coast Campus
Before they collide: streamlining the rescue process
Lunch break to refuel and network.
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Network with other attendees during this break.
The Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative and FXCollaborative
Tracking the fate of window struck passerines using the North American Motus Network
Bird-Safe Campus at uOttawa: Advocacy Through Education and Action
Static cling demonstration piece: a critical tool for bird safe campus teams
Searchers, Scavengers, and Songbirds: modeling bird-window collision rates in Madison, WI
Guidelines for a course-based bird collision monitoring project in universities
Mapping Solutions: A Collaborative Approach to Reducing Bird-Window Collisions
Building a Safer Future for Birds: American Bird Conservancy’s Bird-Friendly Campus Program
Two roundtables will be hosted as breakout rooms; this is a chance to network and participate in an open discussion! Topic 1: Best Practices for Mitigating Bird-window Collisions on your Campus; Topic 2: Effective Advocacy Strategies for the Bird-window Collision Issue on Campuses
Wrap up the day with final thoughts and takeaways.
Please note all schedule times are EST
This amazing resource mapping bird safe campuses across North America was created by Isabelle Pardew. To learn more, check out her presentation in the BSCS Afternoon Contributor Session Presentations recording.
To cite the map in your work, please use: [coming soon]