Press Releases

April 18, 2005
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Jeffrey Raddatz
Phone: (414) 431-6121
E-mail: jraddatz@wihumane.org

MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

Migration’s First Injured Birds Arrive at WHS

MILWAUKEE – The first injured migrant birds of spring: American Woodcock, Brown Creepers, Golden-crowned Kinglets, an Eastern Phoebe, and others have arrived for care at the Wisconsin Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. These are the first birds to arrive at the Center this spring, injured as a result of collisions with windows.

Between 100 million and one billion birds collide with windows annually in the United States! In an effort to help prevent bird window collisions and protect many thousands of birds already at-risk from habitat loss and other human-caused problems, the Wisconsin Humane Society has launched “WIngs” (Wisconsin Night Guardians for Songbirds – www.wihumane.org/wildlife/wings/default.aspx).

Two WIngs training sessions will be held this month to prepare Volunteer Bird Collision Monitors (BCMs) to go out in the pre-dawn hours to search for, rescue and document window collision victims in Downtown Milwaukee this spring. The training sessions are April 20th and 22nd, at the Wisconsin Humane Society.

WHAT: First birds to arrive at the Wisconsin Humane Society this bird migration season as a result of window collisions

WHEN: The birds are in care at the WHS Wildlife Rehabilitation
Center and will remain there until they are healed and
ready to continue on migration.

WHERE: Wisconsin Humane Society
4500 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53208

MEDIA INTEREST:

• Photo opportunity of these injured birds receiving care.
• Interview opportunities with Scott Diehl, Wildlife
Manager at the Center.

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