Urban Oases Partners at New Haven Urban Bird Treaty City Designation Urban Oases Partners come together to celebrate New Haven’s designation as an Urban Bird Treaty City (from left: Joel Tolman (Common Ground), Nan Bartow (Friends of Beaver Ponds Park), Stewart Hudson (Audubon Connecticut), Rick Potvin (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), Dan Barvir (New Haven Parks), Dennis Riordan (Menunkatuck Audubon), Roxanne Bogart (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, James Sirch (Yale Peabody Museum), Mayor Toni Harp, Jenny Dickson (CT Dept. Energy & Env. Protection), Rebecca Bombero (New Haven Parks), Anna Pickett (Yale Urban Resources Initiative), and Pam Toschik (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service).