Audubon Program on Facebook

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Crandall Public Library
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Bird-Window Collisions and Bird-Safe Solutions

Birds don’t see glass. They perceive windows as passageways to fly through or as habitat to fly into when windows mirror the sky and trees behind them. Birds typically die after colliding with windows and collisions are a major cause of avian mortality worldwide. 

Collisions with windows are the third greatest cause of death for birds in the United States, after habitat loss and predation by outdoor cats.  Peer-reviewed conservative research estimates that about one million birds collide with windows every day—the annual estimate is 365 to 988 million. 

To learn about this threat and how to help mitigate it at your home, join John Loz, Project Presenter for the Pennsylvania-based Bird-Window Collision Working Group that includes the Acopian Center at Muhlenberg College and Audubon Pennsylvania.

This program will be broadcast on the Library's Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/CrandallPublicLibrary

Speaker bio:
John Loz is Chair of the Audubon New York Council of Chapters, and 4 and half years as continuing President of Southern Adirondack Audubon Society. He has a B.S. in Biology from Siena College, specializing in Environmental Science. John was a National Park Service volunteer at the Saratoga National Historical Park in Stillwater censusing amphibians for many years and presently is a Trail Naturalist with the Albany Pine Bush. John is an aspiring Adirondack 46er with 16 peaks under his belt and he has been a co-captain of a runner's aid station for the Lake Placid Ironman for 12 years. This bird window strike topic is near and dear to John as he remembers as a child hearing the loud 'thump' of a bird hitting the large living room window of his childhood home and finding birds every year dazed and injured in his yard.


Event Type(s): CoSponsored Program
Age Group(s): Adults