Les tables rondes et les groupes de travail sont des forums de discussion centrés sur des questions actuelles ou émergentes et sur leurs orientations futures ; ils peuvent également servir à recueillir des informations en vue de l'élaboration de documents de planification, ou à partager des informations de manière générale.
Bird-friendly Futures: Linking science and empathy in successful bird-safe building advocacy
Organizers: Meredith Barges, Richard Fadok, Nicholas Lund, Viveca Morris
Building collisions kill an estimated 1 billion birds annually in the U.S., yet these losses often remain abstract to decision-makers. This roundtable examines how bird-safe building advocates intentionally use powerful visual and numerical evidence to make preventable avian deaths visible, legible, and morally compelling to policymakers. Focusing on building collision monitoring, where nonspecialists play a key role, the discussion explores how localizing and personalizing bird strikes is a persuasive tool in advancing mandatory bird-safe building policies, in cities, states, and universities.
Panelists with direct experience in successful advocacy campaigns will describe how community data can challenge expert planning and design—revealing human-bird relationships and politics of accountability. The roundtable addresses how advocates navigate the challenges and ethical imperatives of documenting bird mortality, establishing scientific credibility, and presenting evidence in ways that can move planners, administrators, and elected officials.
The goal is to illuminate how conservation advocacy succeeds when data are not treated as neutral abstractions, but as impactful, localized evidence of the scale and moral significance of bird deaths. By foregrounding the relational work of making birdlife matter, this roundtable will offer a model for translating community science into durable policy change to reduce bird mortality and reimagine shared habitat.
Translating science into bird conservation action
Organizers: Randy Dettmers, Becky Stewart, Sarah Kendrick, Jim Giocomo, Scott Anderson, Pamela Hunt
Translating ornithological science into conservation actions at scales with population-level outcomes is a critical process for successful bird conservation. This roundtable will be an invitation for meeting participants to engage with speakers from the symposium entitled “Now more than ever: the need for collaborative applied science for bird conservation” in discussions about improving pathways for that translation to occur and opportunities for the ornithological community to enhance bird conservation outcomes through collaborative partnerships and delivery systems at scales ranging from regional landscapes to the Western hemisphere.
Desired outcomes include broadening participants’ understanding of the multi-faceted world of bird conservation, the successes and challenges uniting priorities across the hemisphere, and the application of ornithological science to these endeavors. Students and early career professionals will be able to hear from and ask questions of professionals representing a diversity of organizations engaged in bird conservation. Panelists will also share current opportunities to participate in and gain experience working with the partnerships that drive bird conservation success.
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