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Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) on Tuesday, July 8 from 2:00-4:00PM at the Morris Baptist Church, 50 South Broad Street for a special program, Bird Collisions in the *Anthropocene.
During fall migration in October of 2023, 966 birds died after colliding with windows at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center in Chicago. This is the highest number of bird deaths recorded in a single day from a single building. Throughout 2023, a total of 10,836 birds were collected on the streets of Chicago. Although urban areas account for less than 1% of window collisions, they are highly visible, and the event in October prompted the Lakeside Center to implement bird-safe window film and other mitigation measures with their lighting. These measures have resulted in a significant reduction in collisions.
The Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene project, led by Holly Greenberg from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, is raising awareness about bird-window collisions by promoting workshops to create replicas of every bird killed in Chicago in 2023. These replicas, tagged with the crafter’s name, location and date, will become part of a large scale art installation of a 4’x300′ foot ‘carpet’ of these birds. To learn more about the project, please visit
https://www.hollygreenberg.com/bird-collisions-anthropocene.
Please join DOAS in making bird replicas for this project and learn about the issue of window collisions. Registration is free and is limited to 25 people. Children are welcome with adult supervision. Please go to
https://doas.us/ to register.
If you would like to also make/take home Acopian BirdSavers for your windows, please send information about your windows using the form at
https://doas.us/order-materials-for-acopian-bird-savers/ so that we can bring materials for you.
*The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch in Earth's geological timescale, characterized by the significant and lasting impact of human activities on the planet's geology, climate, and ecosystems. While not yet formally recognized as an official geological epoch by the relevant scientific bodies, the term is widely used to describe the period in which human influence has become the dominant force shaping Earth's environment.
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