Friends of the Napanee and Salmon Rivers’ April 5 virtual presentation will be for the birds-and lovers of birds.
Hosted by Michael Mesure, executive director of the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Canada, the webinar, which gets underway at 7 p.m., will cover how people can help in significantly reducing unnecessary bird fatalities. An estimated 500 million to one billion birds die in building collisions each year in North America.
Mesure will explain the threats to migratory and other birds, as well as the bird-building collision movement and why birds collide with buildings. He will educate viewers on bird-friendly guidelines, law and building codes. He will wrap up with mitigation strategies.
Mesure is a founding member of FLAP Canada, and a regular presenter on the topic of bird-building collisions, bringing attention to the reflective light issue that impacts over one billion birds across North America every year. His work focuses on solutions to help remediate the challenges of bird migrations in built-up environments and building design standards. He has also led the BirdSafe® Building Standards and risk assessments, helping to develop the Canadian Standards Association’s (CSA) BirdFriendly Design Standard.
This is the sixth event in the online Winter Speaker Series co-hosted by Friends of the Napanee River and Friends of the Salmon River. To register at no charge, visit FriendsNapaneeRiver.ca or contact info@FriendsNapaneeRiver.ca