Vanessa Hum
SFU master’s student pushes for bird-friendly windows on campus
Peak Web October 9, 2024By: Caitlin Kingsmill, News Writer SFU master’s of biological sciences student Vanessa Hum has been working to make the Burnaby campus more bird-friendly. Over nearly half a year, Hum recorded bird-window collisions and estimated over 2,000 collisions occurred during this period. She found mortalities in 25 of the 41 different bird species on campus. In an interview with The Peak, Hum discussed her research findings, saying, “The number is really big but I’m not surprised.” She found evidence of bird collisions at eight different buildings at SFU Burnaby. The Burnaby campus is located “along an important migratory route called the…
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Student conducts study on birds colliding into SFU windows
Peak Web November 3, 2022By: Clarence Ndabahwerize, Staff Writer Vanessa Hum, a master’s of biological sciences student at SFU, has been conducting a study on bird collisions with windows at the Burnaby campus. Through citizen science, which she explained as data collected by the…
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