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Hi Nina. Victoria from GOCO here. Looking forward to the presentation!

Hello! Vivienne Jannatpour, Boulder County Parks & Open Space Public Information & Engagement Manager

Hello! Laraine Martin with Routt County Riders in Steamboat Springs.

Good afternoon everyone... Justin Scharton here, Superintendent of Greeley's Natural Areas & Trails division.

Thanks for joining us today Nina! Daniel Bewley from the Colorado Lottery here.

Hi everyone, Adam Splitek with Bernalillo County Open Space in New Mexico.

You can download my slides and keep in touch with me here: https://bit.ly/cosa2020-slides

Hello everyone! This is Whitney May with City of Boulder's Open Space and Mountain Parks. Excited to be here today.

Hi All! Melissa Bartoletta from the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Hi Whitney! Kristina Kachur from Logan Simpson in Fort Collins here.

Howdy y'all! Alexis Sohlden, Visitor Information Coordinator with Jefferson County Open Space (Colorado) here.

Welcome Adam, nice to see neighboring states open spaces represented!

Loving this, thank you! Dana Coelho (she/her) with Metro Denver Nature Alliance, Zooming in from Lakewood CO.

YES!! Change programming rather than just invite more + different people.

install perches everywhere

Build relationships with the birds!

give them food

Provide birdseed and security from the cats

Open house with free birdseed

Set up a community bird bath

put muzzles on the dogs and cats that like to eat birds

Get a bird on that board

install a worm garden

Play this music at the community center.

advertise on a migration route

Survey birds for what they'd like to see in the community center

weekly self defense against bird classes

provide safe spaces for the birds

clear a space with no dogs & cats

birds on the board

Days when the community center is only staffed by dogs so that birds feel comfortable (no cats!)

conflict resolution between cats and birds for past aggressions

Add trees inside the community center.

Reach out to them at their favorite perch/tree

3D programming! Our activities can happen on the ground and in the air!

bird advisory council to the park

dedicate a specific day in the week for bird friends and activities

have cats acts as ambassadors

protect them from crashing into windows - put colored strings on windows inside and out

have staff/volunteers learn different bird languages/dialects

mediation between birds and cats

Functional artwork outside the building birds would enjoy perching on

Show that dogs and cats were able to come together (despite being enemies) and birds would also be welcome in this environment.

Get rid of the windows so they can fly in and out instead of trying to use dog/cat doors?

build new infrastructure for birds and ask the birds what they like in their community centers!

Get some of our bird friends to introduce us to their dog and cat friends who are great bird allies.

provide hot air balloons for the cats and dogs to invite the birds to join them

Pipe in bird song

Ask the birds what they want!

Co-create a bird-led council to suggest how to include more birds

tweets (and not the Twitter type)

Advanced flying lessons

Plant native berry and seed producing species that attract birds.

Please add your questions to the Q&A box!

Nina’s slides: https://bit.ly/cosa2020-slides

would you please share the framework for action again and for a little longer?

poifect - thanks

100% agree internal work needs to happen for the long term work to be authentic

That lesson feels SO relevant in this moment!

THANK YOU!!

You can download my slides and keep in touch with me here: https://bit.ly/cosa2020-slides

Thank you so much from the Continental Divide Trail Coalition!

Wonderful presentation Nina, thank you so much for your time today!

Thank you Nina!

Thank you!

Thank you so much Nina!

Thank you!

And COSA!

Thanks so much Nina!