Urban ecology

All of the data WINGS volunteers gather is used to better understand the scale of collisions and help building managers reduce them.

Amanda Tokuyama is the GIS and Field Data Manager at the Urban Ecology Center.

She speaks with Lake Effect's Excret Nunez for this month's Chirp Chat about the WINGS program.

First, we'll hear from Maggie Steinhauer, the Research Manager at the Urban Ecology Center, about where the program got its start.

So how did this idea to create this program start in the first place?

So this project originated nearly two decades ago now with the Wisconsin Humane Society.

About three years ago now, Urban Ecology joined forces to kind of manage more of the volunteer side of things and the data collection and analysis so that the Wisconsin Humane Society could focus on the rehabilitation of birds.

But it really is a large widespread problem of hundreds of millions of birds colliding with glass primarily on buildings and causing quite a high rate of mortality.