No Bird Left Behind

AGENDA

8:00 a.m.         Registration

  9:00               Light continental breakfast provided

  9:30               WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

·   Peter Cannon, Madison Audubon Society and regional director, National Audubon Society

                        KEYNOTE

A Bird’s-eye View of Hazards to Migration

·   Noel Cutright, We Energies / Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, West Bend, WI

10:15               PLENARY PANEL:  BIRDS and BUILDINGS

The problem:  Bird collisions with tall buildings

·   Daniel Klem, Jr., Ornithologist, Department of Biology, Muhlenberg College, PA

Solving the problem:  Glass coatings

·   Rick Voelker, Viracon, manufacturer of glass coatings, Owatonna, MN

Solving the problem:  Chicago’s Lights Out program as a model for other cities

·   Judy Pollock, Director of Bird Conservation, Audubon Chicago Region, Skokie, IL

Questions & Answers

 

11:30               PLENARY PANEL: BROADCAST COMMUNICATION TOWERS

                                Communication towers as an avian hazard and progress toward reducing the risk

·   Joelle Gehring, Program Leader for Zoology, Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI

                                Solving the problem

·   John Laabs, President, Wisconsin Broadcasters Assn., Madison

Questions & Answers

12:30 p.m.       Lunch provided

  1:30               PLENARY PANEL: WIND ENERGY and ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION/DISTRIBUTION LINES

Understanding the impacts of wind energy on birds (and bats)

·   Leakhena Au, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Green Bay, WI

Bird collisions and electrocutions at power lines: USFWS efforts to avoid or minimize impacts

·   Al Manville, Senior Wildlife Biologist, USFWS-Division of Migratory Bird Management, Arlington, VA

Using Science to Reduce Bird Collisions with Utility Structures

·   Rick Carlton, Senior Project Manager, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA

Wind Power Today ... and Tomorrow

·   John Dunlop, Technical Outreach Representative, American Wind Energy Association, Washington, DC

Questions & Answers

  3:00               Break

  3:20             FINDING COMMON GROUND. Facilitated discussion groups identify priority issues and action that can be taken.

  4:35               WRAP-UP. Report out from discussion groups, dialogue; commitments for the future

  5:00               Adjourn for dinner

  5:15               Cash bar

  5:45               Dinner (hearty hors d’oeuvres) provided

  6:30               SPEAKER

                        Avian Migration and Human Technologies Birds Must Face: Traversing the gauntlet of tall structures

·   Al Manville, USFWS, Arlington, VA

  7:30               Adjourn for the day

 

Hosted by: Wisconsin Audubon Council, with 14 independent Audubon chapters, 2 Audubon Centers, and more than 10,000 Audubon chapter members. Co-sponsors: Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative (WBCI), Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bird Conservation Minnesota.