Urban Bird Project

06/05/2026

Please help our Feathered Friends by signing this Trinity University Bird Window Collisions Petition:

"Window collisions are estimated to kill over a billion birds annually in the United States. Many of these deaths are preventable by installing a treatment on the outside of the window, such as evenly spaced decals, to break up the reflection."

By signing this petition, we are pledging our support for Students at Trinity University in their goal to urge university administration to adopt the following B.I.R.D. agenda:
1) Building codes
2) Install window treatments
3) Renovate campus buildings
4) Designate funds as needed in the future

https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSedY7LvtfDC-t2m3Vp8DHkXJatEunv3JtO6xDvASOkjtZaxjA%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dheader&data=05%7C02%7Ceres.gomez%40utsa.edu%7Cec2aa6fb32c947048e9008debc48707f%7C3a228dfbc64744cb88357b20617fc906%7C0%7C0%7C639155216475612271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PCWi8tF4qd07qjHH8a8ZsCyPCUa7JmG0YH2vWGAeGc4%3D&reserved=0

05/13/2026

Don't forget to RSVP for the Urban Bird Project 2026 Spring Symposium and Graduation Party at Galeria E.V.A!
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Scan the QR code or follow this link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/rfhnEGRhjbMmpP5ZA

Friday, May 15th, 6-9pm
Galeria E.V.A 3412 S Flores St, San Antonio TX 78204

Join as we celebrate the end of the semester and congratulate our recent graduates!

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05/08/2026

05/05/2026

UBP Spring Symposium & Graduation Party at Galeria EVA

Friday, May 15th, 2026
6-9pm
at Galeria E.V.A

please see flyer to RSVP

04/14/2026

Join UBP tomorrow 4/15 for a Story Focused Bird Walk led by three of our Spring Scholars!

see flyer for details and please RSVP via the QR code

Urban Bird Project Spring Scholars will be leading a Story Focused Bird Walk on the main UTSA campus!

When: Wednesday, April 15th, 1pm
Where: UT San Antonio main campus, 1 UTSA Circle SATX 78249

Meet at 12:45pm at the Biosciences Building (BSB) and Applied Engineering Technology (AET) building, near the water-fountain.

Please scan the QR code to RSVP
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04/10/2026

Urban Bird Project Spring Scholars will be leading a Story Focused Bird Walk on the main UTSA campus!

When: Wednesday, April 15th, 1pm
Where: UT San Antonio main campus, 1 UTSA Circle SATX 78249

Meet at 12:45pm at the Biosciences Building (BSB) and Applied Engineering Technology (AET) building, near the water-fountain.

Please scan the QR code to RSVP
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04/04/2026

Join the Urban Bird Project for a presentation on Monday April 6th, from 4:00 - 5:00 pm in the Learning Lab 1 (PCL) at UT Austin.

This talk discusses the transdisciplinary practice of the Urban Bird Project (UBP), an environmental justice initiative that brings Rhetoric, Ecology, and Chicanx and Indigenous Studies together through local, migratory, and culturally significant birds. Led by faculty and graduate students from UT San Antonio, with community members across South Texas, Greater México, and beyond, this talk highlights a few projects that have emerged through our practice.
In the first project, Dr. Kenny Walker and Olarotimi Ogungbemi discuss how rhetorical science studies engages with ecological science through biocultural significance in UBP’s restor(y)ation repository and field guide to the cultural significance of birds; in the next section, King-Kostelac and Hinojosa discuss UBP’s collaborative bioacoustic monitoring project and how AI, digital field methods, and arts-based practices intervene in protection strategies for avian window collisions; Finally, Smith discusses UBP’s microplastics project that integrates citizen science and avian ecology to address the exposure of birds to microplastics to highlight potential issues of environmental justice. Together, the team ends with a discussion on the broader impacts of UBP’s transdisciplinary work through team-teaching, university-community partnerships, and community-based bird walks with transhemispheric connections.
The upshot reveals how and why transdisciplinary approaches to ecology demand rhetorical practice as a relational world-building architecture for community-engaged research across borders.
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To RSVP, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduG0rW598CRVVB-NJKi9EqtMcPSG5WGp_rtazC0QkUtYp9ig/viewform or scan the QR code on the flyer

Questions? email [email protected]
To learn more about UBP, visit urbanbirdproject.org

03/31/2026

Check out this recap of the UBP Fall 2025 Student Symposium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sslRDb8j4b4

Thanks to Jenna Creel for creating this video!

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Read more about our Fall Symposium on our website: https://urbanbirdproject.org/2025/12/06/urban-bird-project-fall-2025-student-symposium/

The Urban Bird Project's Fall 2025 Student Symposium at Galeria EVA in San Antonio, TexasVideo created for UBP by Jenna CreelLearn more at urbanbirdproject.org

03/20/2026

Please join the Urban Bird Project in two weeks, March 30th 10am, in the JPL Assembly Room on the UT San Antonio Main Campus as we welcome Dr. Priscilla Ybarra for her guest lecture "Out(side) Brown Q***r: on Autohistoria-teoria in the Environmental Humanities.

Limited seating is available so please RSVP soon to reserve a spot!
Use the QR code on the flyer or by visiting this link: https://forms.gle/F6fxzYxEeSpJRhHC7

Questions? email us at [email protected]
Visit our website at urbanbirdproject.org

We look forward to seeing you there!

03/06/2026

Join the Urban Bird Project on March 30th at 10am in the JPL Assembly Room on UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio Main Campus for a riveting Guest lecture by Dr. Priscilla Ybarra.

Dr. Ybarra, the author of Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment, will present a talk titled "Out(side) Brown Q***r: on Autohistoria-teoria in the Environmental Humanities".

Please use the QR code to RSVP or use this link: https://forms.gle/F6fxzYxEeSpJRhHC7
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See you there!
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Questions? email us at [email protected]
Visit our website at urbanbirdproject.org