No Bird Left Behind

Bird Interactions with Tall Structures
and How to Reduce the Risk

Friday, October 13, 2006

Links to Copies of Presentations and Additional Information

KEYNOTE
     A Bird’s-eye View of Hazards to Migration
          Full Screen PDF or 6 per page handout style PDF
     Noel Cutright, We Energies / Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, West Bend, WI

PLENARY PANEL:  BIRDS and BUILDINGS
     Solving the problem:  Glass coatings
          Full Screen PDF or 6 per page handout style PDF
     Rick Voelker, Viracon, manufacturer of glass coatings, Owatonna, MN

     Solving the problem:  Chicago’s Lights Out program as a model for other cities
          See The "Lights Out Chicago" Web Page
     Judy Pollock, Director of Bird Conservation, Audubon Chicago Region, Skokie, IL

PLENARY PANEL: BROADCAST COMMUNICATION TOWERS
     Communication towers as an avian hazard and progress toward reducing the risk
          Full Screen PDF or 6 per page handout style PDF
     Joelle Gehring, Program Leader for Zoology, Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI

PLENARY PANEL: WIND ENERGY and ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION/DISTRIBUTION LINES
     Understanding the impacts of wind energy on birds (and bats)
          Full Screen PDF or 6 per page handout style PDF
     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
          Full Screen PDF or 6 per page handout style PDF
     Al Manville, Senior Wildlife Biologist, USFWS-Division of Migratory Bird Management, Arlington, VA

     Wind Power Today ... and Tomorrow
          Full Screen PDF or 6 per page handout style PDF
     John Dunlop, Technical Outreach Representative, American Wind Energy Association, Washington, DC

FINDING COMMON GROUND
     Threats to Migrating Birds: Brainstorming Solutions and Personal Commitments to Action
     Select the appropriate tab at the bottom of the Excel Spreadsheet

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
     Avian Migration and Human Technologies Birds Must Face: Traversing the Gauntlet of
     Tall Structures
          Full Screen PDF or 6 per page handout style PDF
     Al Manville, USFWS, Arlington, VA

Links to Additional Information

Links to Upper Midwest Aububon Conference presentations

Wisconsin Wind Energy Maps

U.S. Wind Energy Maps

 

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