Michael Mesure, FLAP Canada
A Bird’s Eye View – Reflecting on Bird-Building Collisions

This meeting is planned to be in person and hybrid, and we will update our members and email list if anything changes.

Michael Mesure is the Executive Director of Fatal Light Awareness

Program (FLAP) Canada, a registered Canadian charity. A founding member of FLAP Canada, he has been with the organization since it began operations in 1993.

An author and speaker, Michael regularly delivers presentations on the topic of bird-building collisions, bringing attention to the reflective light issue that impacts over 1 billion birds across North America every year.

His work increasingly focuses on solutions to help mitigate and remediate the challenges of bird migrations in built environments, having led the BirdSafe® Building Standards and risk assessments, to helping develop the Canadian Standards Association’s (CSA) Bird-Friendly Design standard as a technical committee member. Michael tirelessly advocates for bird protections at various levels of government, as well as consults with city planners across North America on developing bird-friendly guidelines and standards.

In addition to his ongoing bird rescue and recovery patrols, Michael’s time is spent partnership-building and enabling collaboration to promote bird conservation programs and other renowned initiatives—including Global Bird Rescue and Bird-Safe Campus—and contributing content to ornithological-focused papers such as Collision Course: The Hazards of Lighted Structures & Windows to Migratory Birds and Window Collisions by Migratory Bird Species: Urban Geographical Patterns and Habitat Associations.

With specialties in fine arts and graphic design, Michael complements his life’s work supporting the birds that inspire him with professional

development in bird biology from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and continuous learning.

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