{"id":230,"date":"2013-03-08T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-03-08T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:11:31","slug":"bird-city-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/bird-city-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird City Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=231\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-231 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" alt=\"BirdCitylogoFinalCropped200\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BirdCitylogoFinalCropped200.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>I first heard about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdcitywisconsin.org\/\">Bird City Wisconsin<\/a> program back in 2004 when I was teaching an Urban Bird Conservation course at the University of Texas-Austin. \u00a0When I went to work for Audubon later that year, this was one of the ideas I hoped we could get going nationally. \u00a0No dice. \u00a0At least so far. \u00a0However, the efforts are growing. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdcitywisconsin.org\/\">Bird City Wisconsin<\/a> is now spearheaded out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milwaukeeaudubon.org\/Index.htm\">Milwaukee Audubon<\/a> and Steve Saffier who worked with me at Audubon now has a similar program up and going in <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/?p=219\">Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdcitywisconsin.org\/BirdCities\/BirdCitiesInWisconsin.htm\">60 bird cities<\/a> in the Badger State. \u00a0To become a bird city, municipalities must meet at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdcitywisconsin.org\/PDF\/CriteriaBecomingABirdCity.pdf\">7 of 22 criteria<\/a> that include creation and protection of habitat, community forest management, addressing hazards to birds, public education, and celebration of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdday.org\/\">International Migratory Bird Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdcitywisconsin.org\/\">website<\/a>, you can check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Bird-City-Wisconsin\/133776896692348\">Bird City Wisconsin on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about the\u00a0Bird City Wisconsin program back in 2004 when I was teaching an Urban Bird Conservation course at the University of Texas-Austin. \u00a0When I went to work for Audubon later that year, this was one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/bird-city-wisconsin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Wavc-3I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}