Chicago Bird Alliance

Communication tools include e-blasts, social media (facebook and instagram) and website that reach over 10,000 people and cover important and timely local and national birding and conservation topics. Organization news, educational pieces, and calendar of organizational events are shared widely.

Lights out and Bird friendly Chicago are two initiatives dedicated to reducing Bird mortality at buildings. The Alliance collaborates with the Chicago building owners and managers' association on lights out, a program to extinguish decorative exterior lighting and lobby lights to save birds during migration. In partnership with other local birding organizations, the Alliance operates Bird friendly Chicago to educate about Bird friendly design measures in Chicago.

An expanding slate of educational programs (400+ participants) and conservation (100+ participants) and birdwalks (1200+ participants) that includes many parts of the region and diverse demographic groups. Programs targeting people with disabiliies and people interested in local Bird conservation have been added to our already large slate. Ongoing programs include the environmental awards dinner (70+ participants), the Washington park hummingbird garden and the river park habitat restoration (80+ participants).