Press Releases

September 1, 2005
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Michelle Pintar
Phone: (414) 431-6104
E-mail: mpintar@wihumane.org

Save Our Birds!

MILWAUKEE – An estimated 100 million to one billion birds die annually in the United States due to window collisions. The Wisconsin Humane Society's WIngs (Wisconsin Night Guardians for Songbirds) Volunteer Bird Collision Monitors (BCM) will be taking to the streets beginning September 1 in the wee hours of the morning at designated tall buildings in Milwaukee to help save injured birds and collect dead birds for documentation.

Members of the media are invited to get footage of a Volunteer Bird Collision Monitor. To find out the location of a BCM, please contact Scott Diehl, Wildlife Manager of the Wisconsin Humane Society at (414) 431-6117. To arrange an interview with Scott, contact Michelle Pintar at (414) 431-6104.

WHAT:       
WIngs Bird Collision Monitoring

WHEN:       
Begins September 1, 2005
Ends October 31, 2005
(then starts up again next spring)

WHERE:       
Designated tall buildings in Milwaukee

MEDIA INTEREST:   
· Photo opportunities with WIngs Volunteer Bird Collision Monitors rescuing/collecting birds.

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