Speaker
Description
Window collisions are one of the leading anthropogenic drivers of urban bird mortalities globally, and are responsible for the deaths of approximately 100 million birds every year in Germany. Despite the scale and magnitude of this problem, little is known about how the urban landscape shapes the spatial distribution of bird-window collisions, especially in continental Europe. By combining citizen/community science observations of bird-window collisions with species distribution models, we reconstructed the “death niches” of the top five most frequently observed collision victims in Germany. We used our model outputs to identify the urban characteristics most strongly associated with bird-window collisions in order to develop guidelines for efficient implementation of collision mitigation strategies across Germany. Additionally, we projected our models onto the German urban landscape to map out the spatial distribution of collision risk and identify regions of high collision mitigation priority.
| Status Group | Postdoctoral Researcher |
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| FOR TALKS: Poster Presentation Option | Yes, I’m willing to present as a poster. |