Further, through publication, the data and standards have the potential to educate a global audience of researchers and designers.
Local firms and campus architects will be included in the drafting of collision standards. This can be achieved through campus events such as art installations, volunteering opportunities, and informational signs near retrofitted buildings. By reaching students who will enter careers in many of the fields that contribute to collisions, this project will create no stewards for protecting birds and biodiversity. A third reason preventing bird building collisions is not widely implemented is the lack of awareness. Throughout both phases of the project, education and outreach about the importance of preventing bird building collisions will be crucial. This data will also be documented and submitted for publication, the first on this topic.
Further, in the second phase, the project will conduct a perception study of how students, staff, faculty, and campus visitors perceive the bird protecting designs by asking if their site or campus experience is impacted by the addition of these designs. The data will also be documented and submitted for publication. Based on the data gathered in the second year, Phase 2, the second deliverable will provide architects and designers with a set of standards to implement effective bird protecting designs. And second, though a few building guidelines advocate protecting biodiversity through preventing collisions, it’s not required, nor do any standards exist. This will be the first study monitoring bird protecting designs for their effectiveness in an ecologically salient setting. First, when comparing current product testing methods such as flight tunnels to case studies, Judy found they overestimate the product’s effectiveness. Two issues prevent widely implementing bird protecting designs. Phase 2 of the project will monitor retrofitted buildings for effectiveness. With the data gathered from the first fall season, the project can begin to identify buildings to retrofit. The first deliverable is a document outlining the collisions monitoring results to be submitted for publication. The goal of the first year of monitoring is to provide a year-long set of data to determine the vulnerable species and indicate deadly designs for retrofitting. The deceased birds will be donated to the Burke Museum, which has approved their addition to their collection. The collision victims will be collected by student volunteers who will enter the details of the site and species in a data collection file. The first phase will monitor campus buildings for collisions beginning in September 2022 during the most fatal season, fall migration, followed by winter, spring, and summer for 45 days each. This letter proposes the intent to conduct a two-phase, two-calendar year monitoring of a set of University of Washington Seattle campus buildings that have reported collisions.
However, collisions can be prevented through gathering local collision data, bird protecting designs, and education strategies. College campuses are a hot spot for bird-building collisions, with the University of British Columbia estimating a loss of 10,000 yearly. monitored collisions on the University of British Columbia Campus for five seasons (two winters, fall, spring, and summer), indicating bird building collisions are a year-round problem and collision patterns can vary regionally. To date, the majority of bird building collision studies focus on fall and spring migration in the central and easter areas of the United States. Birds collide head-on into transparent and reflective glass surfaces, killing them, in most cases, instantly. Protecting biodiversity such as birds also increases overall human well-being through visual and audible connections to nature.īirds are unable to perceive transparent glass surfaces as solid or distinguish between reflections of habitat space or flight paths in the glass.
Additionally, this critical conservation issue threatens biodiversity locally, regionally, and for migrating bird, throughout the Americas. This enormous yearly loss is one of the four top anthropogenic threats birds face leading to a 29% net loss of avian populations in North America (Rosenburg et al., 2019). Each year, up to one billion birds are lost to bird building collisions in the United States (Loss et al., 2014).
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