Two friends and FLAP Canada volunteers with a shared dream… to make UofT bird safe! In spring of 2022, Laurna Germscheid and Carly Davenport founded Birdsafe UofT.
What does Birdsafe UofT do?
- 1 Monitor campus for bird collisions
- 2 Advocate for bird-friendly glass retrofits on campus
- 3 Outreach & education
How do we monitor campus?
We engage dedicated FLAP volunteers who patrol campus, as well as casual student and staff volunteers to report collisions.
If you see a bird that has collided with a building on campus:
- Step 1 Take a photo of the bird in front of the building, and take a close up ID-quality picture of the bird.
- Step 2 Report using the form on this website or through our Instagram account.
The data collected will be entered into FLAP Canada's Global Bird Collision Mapper
database, known as GBCM.
We will also add your photo to our Instagram gallery along with the location you found the bird.
Check out our Campus Collision Dashboard to easily visualize the data.
Using the data, we have successfully advocated for over 10 retrofits on campus. We hope to keep this momentum going.
If you're interested in volunteering with us, please get in touch!
Read more about us:
Victoria University
For the Birds: Making Our Campus Buildings Avian-Friendly
September 22, 2023
Department of Economics
Teaming Up to Protect Feathered Friends at Max Gluskin House
September 27, 2023
Department of Cell & Systems Biology
Designing for Feather Friends: Ramsay Wright Gets Bird Friendly Makeover
November 2, 2023
IMS Magazine Spotlight
Research always happens in an environmental context. Birdsafe UofT cares for it.
April 29, 2024
Facilities & Services
Soaring to safety: working towards a more bird safe campus
October 28, 2024