Blog Feed — Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance

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We will always choose to save birds.

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We will always choose to save birds.

If you had the power to save birds by making a small change, wouldn’t you?

Birds face many threats, including habitat loss, pesticide poisoning, and climate change. This year has been especially tough.

The severe winter storm in the south this past February is suspected to have caused significant bird deaths in migratory bird populations. A mysterious bird illness reported in the East Coast is continuing to spread into the Midwest, killing and sickening even more songbirds. And, hundreds of millions―even up to a billion―birds die each year in the United States after colliding with windows.

In spite of these devastating difficulties, there is hope.

Indigo Bunting photo by Kelly Colgan Azar.

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What's the price of losing birds?

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If you have ever heard that sickening thud of a bird hitting a window, you are not alone. Up to one billion birds die from colliding with windows every single year in the U.S. Not just a few. Up to a billion.

In August 2020, Madison Audubon was proud to support the passage of Madison's new Bird-Safe Glass Ordinance, the first of its kind in Wisconsin but one of dozens nation-wide. The ordinance requires bird-safe glass be used in construction and major renovations of buildings 10,000 square feet or larger. But, now the ordinance is facing a legal challenge by the Wisconsin Institutes for Law and Liberty, representing developer groups that would like to see the ordinance go away.

We must fight back.

Photo by Corliss Karasov