North Carolina Botanical Garden Visitor Education
Center
The world's population continues to increase exponentially, even as our natural resources are depleted. In measuring human growth and expansion, the presence and diversity of birds in a given area is often used as an indicator to evaluate the health of a particular environment or landscape. This project is dedicated to evaluating birds as indicator species, determining the species of birds that best fit this role, determining the effects of urban sprawl and habitat fragmentation, developing and evaluating construction strategies that will create "bird-safe" buildings, and evaluating our current campus architecture in light our research.
