Join us as we learn from Bird Safe Philly how to help migrating birds in our community thrive and meet their destinations by reducing their collisions with windows. This program will be presented by Leigh Altadonna, a leader at Bird Safe Philly. We will also learn about how the Moorestown Library is becoming more bird-friendly. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Leigh Altadonna is President Emeritus of Liberty Bird Alliance, formerly known as the Wyncote Audubon Society, that serves Audubon members in Philadelphia and major portions of Montgomery County in Pennsylvania. Leigh has served in the past twelve years on the Board of the National Audubon Society as the Regional Director for the Atlantic Flyway-North and two years on the Board of the National Audubon Society Action Fund. Leigh also served on the Boards of Audubon Pennsylvania and the Friends of Hog Island and was chair of the Stewardship Board of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove. He is also a “Fellow” of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club.

The Bird Safe Philly partnership aims to create safe spaces for birds by developing awareness of the issue of bird collisions and implementing solutions, working in partnership with the Philadelphia community. Through Lights Out, Collision Monitoring, and Taking Action, Bird Safe Philly strives to engage individuals, organizations, and the community in better understanding bird collisions and the solutions that can be implemented to help prevent these collisions.

Bird Safe Philly is a partnership led by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Audubon Mid-Atlantic, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, National Audubon Society, Valley Forge Audubon Society, and Liberty Bird Alliance. The partnership is designed to help protect native birds in the Philadelphia area from a variety of issues that can harm birds in urban areas, especially issues that can cause birds to collide with buildings and other human made structures. Bird Safe Philly was created in response to a mass collision event that occurred on October 2, 2020 in which thousands of migratory birds died after colliding with buildings in Center City Philadelphia.

This program is part of our week long celebration of World Migratory Bird Day. World Migratory Bird Day is a biannual global campaign celebrated on the second Saturday in May and October to highlight the need for conserving migratory birds and their habitats.

This program is supported by Flight Path, the first campaign of the Spark of Science@ My Library initiative, which focuses on the science of birds and migration.