Luanne Harris of the Sacagawea Audubon Society told the Bozeman Inter Neighborhood Council the society can help neighborhood associations make yards and public sites more friendly to birds and pollinators.

“We have a very robust program, bird and pollinator friendly landscaping,” Harris said, offering three topics the group can present to neighborhood meetings: native and pollinator planting, bird‑safe window treatments, and burdock removal.

Harris described bird‑window collisions as a common and largely avoidable source of bird mortality and said inexpensive treatments and decals can reduce strikes substantially. “You need to break up that reflection, by putting, decals or painted lines across the surface of the glass, and that will decrease bird hits by probably 80%. It really does work,” she said. Harris added that the feather‑friendly tape is available locally and that volunteers can demonstrate thin painted lines as a removable treatment.

On burdock, Harris explained the plant is a biennial that blooms in alternate years and produces burrs that can entangle and kill wildlife; volunteers organize removal work parties in late July and early August.

Harris offered to send handouts to neighborhood groups, to appear at individual neighborhood meetings and to direct neighbors to a demonstration bird‑friendly garden at Story Mill Park.

No formal action resulted from the presentation; the society’s outreach offer was informational and neighborhood representatives requested copies of the brochures and contact information.