Birds Connect Seattle leading a bird walk with QPoc Hikers | Wendy Walker
Our Work
Birds Connect Seattle puts our mission into action through both urban and regional initiatives, designed to inspire appreciation, understanding, and protection of birds within and beyond our local community.
Urban Conservation
Birds Connect Seattle’s urban conservation programs span the areas of education, science, and conservation, focused on the greater Seattle area.
Conservation Advocacy
Birds don’t have a voice, so together, let’s give them ours. The Birds Connect Seattle community has the power to make sure our local law and policy makers are hearing our concerns related to environmental justice, habitat protection, and land allocation. Stay up to date on local initiatives that need your voice on our Conservation Advocacy page.
Regional Initiatives
The reach of many Birds Connect Seattle programs, especially those for science and conservation, extends beyond the boundaries of the greater Seattle area. Read more about our regional initiatives.
Equity & Justice
Birds Connect Seattle is committed to understanding and eradicating structural racial inequity at every level of our work, and creating spaces and programs that are accessible and welcoming to all.
Strategic Plan
The Birds Connect Seattle Board of Directors approved a new 2020-2023 strategic plan on June 11, 2020, released to the general public in July 2020. This plan, Cities at the Center, focuses the organization on five goals within three core themes: urban conservation, equity, and resilience.
How to stop birds from hitting windows
Tens of thousands of wild birds are injured or killed each year in Seattle after colliding with windows. You can help protect them from painful injury and death. Here’s how.
Bird and Nature Advocates Needed for Comments on Seattle’s Draft 2024 Comprehensive Plan Update
The City of Seattle is accepting public comment on its 2024 draft Comprehensive Plan update. To help bird advocates feel informed and inspired to comment, we’re hosting several events to share information, provide resources, and support each other.
The Collision Buffet: How Bird-window Collisions Supplement the Diets of Urban Scavengers | EarthCare Northwest
Bird fatalities, while tragic, play an important and unnoticed role in our urban food chain, especially for scavengers like crows, gulls, and rats. Birds Connect Seattle is studying carcass persistence, or how long a dead bird remains before it is carried away by scavengers, as part of the Seattle Bird Collision Monitoring Project.