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AT23-067 Hybrid Lights Out: Safer Skies for Migrating Birds, San Antonio
February 22, 2023 @ 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Event/Webinar Title: Lights Out: Safer Skies for Migrating Birds
AT-VMS: AT: Hill Country Chapter Other Approved Training (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Location, and Presenter)
Comments: AT23-067 Hybrid Lights Out: Safer Skies for Migrating Birds, San Antonio, Presenter: Tania Homayoun (AT=1h)
Event Date: 2/22/2023
Event Time: 6:30p-8:00p
Event Summary:
This presentation will introduce this challenging issue and why it matters to bird conservation, focusing on what we’ve learned through research and monitoring efforts.
Event Description:
Collision with buildings and glass is a significant cause of death to native birds in the United States. This presentation will introduce this challenging issue and why it matters to bird conservation, focusing on what we’ve learned through research and monitoring efforts. We’ll discuss the biological and design factors associated with bird-building collision and some techniques for mitigating collisions in built landscapes.
Tania will present via Zoom but we will gather at Alamo Colleges District conference room (2222 N. Alamo Street) or you can watch from home.
Dr. Tania Homayoun is the statewide ornithologist with the Nongame and Rare Species Program at Texas Parks and Wildlife. Through this position, she works to implement conservation measures, conduct status assessments, direct statewide bird research efforts, and address threats to non-game birds identified as Species of Greatest Conservation Need. Tania spent several years with TPWD’s Texas Nature Trackers program, engaging naturalists of all interests and ability levels in collecting citizen and community science data on Texas’ unique plants and animals. Previously, Tania worked for Audubon Texas, with the Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center and later the Conservation Science Team as its Urban Conservation Program Manager where she worked to develop and deliver conservation plans, educational programs/trainings, and activities supporting biodiversity and sustainable communities. Tania holds a BS in Ecology/Evolution/Conservation Biology and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota, where she studied the impacts of urbanization on landbird communities. She is an avid birder and always has room for one more native plant in her patio garden.
Cost: no charge
Register for in-person attendance @: https://bexaraudubon.org/3174-2/?sheet_id=47 (seating is limited)
To Join the Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87650926118?pwd=ejZHQk9KajY2Y1VNRmNiMDdkdTJIdz09
Meeting ID: 876 5092 6118
Passcode: 844027
Find your local number to call in: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kxOOv5LzE
Event Location: Alamo Colleges District Building at 2222 N. Alamo. Park in front and enter the first set of doors on the right to reach the reception area. The conference room is behind the reception area.
Presenter:
Dr. Tania Homayoun, TPWD
Contact Information:
bexaraudubonsociety@bexaraudubon.org
Organization Website:
https://bexaraudubon.org/meetings-events/
Sponsoring Organization:
Bexar Audubon Society
