Jacksonville is the only other participating Florida city besides Miami. cities with five others operating statewide or regional programs. Artificial light at night (ALAN) can disrupt bird migration in a variety of ways, including disorienting birds from their routes and causing collisions with buildings, resulting in millions of bird fatalities each year.
We educate and organize people to turn off or dim their nonessential lights during the weeks of April 1. Millions of migrating birds that make their way to South Florida in spring and fall face this threat as our high-rises get taller and brighter, which is why the Tropical Audubon Society has joined Audubon’s national Lights Out program. Lights Out Connecticut is a growing community of residents, property owners, businesses, nonprofits, and officials in Connecticut working together to protect migratory birds by reducing artificial light during peak periods of bird migration. alone, making it one of the greatest human-caused threats to birds, according to the American Bird Conservancy. Turn your lights out to help the billions of migrating birds navigating south in the night sky, so they safely reach their winter destinations. Now they are tired and looking for a place to rest so they see the reflection of trees in the windows and crash into them … If the buildings are dark, they fly right past them,” said Brian Rapoza of Miami’s Tropical Audubon Society.Ĭollisions with glass windows, walls and other structures kill up to a billion birds a year in the U.S. “Thousands of migrating birds (would) be seen swarming around the World Trade Center, for example. This black-and white warbler collided with a building in downtown Miami July 29, 2021.
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