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Turn Off the Lights and Save Migrating Birds!

livescience.com — Birds, like moths, are attracted to light at night and if they become disoriented, will fly in circles around the lights in a tall building, often hitting the building, or dropping exhausted to the ground.

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  • inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2Just like flies do around lights right?
  • BigManOnCampus, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2lights in skyscrapers are usually on at night for the cleaning staff. The only way to accommodate both the birds and the night shift is to shade the windows at night.
  • wfiupublicradio, on 07/28/2008, -0/+1Bird GPS, the obvious solution.
  • Ninh, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1That explains the extinction of the dodo.
  • nova912, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1Natural Selection.
  • Oxygen, on 07/27/2008, -2/+1But if we don't leave the lights on how will the birds see where they're flying?

    Didn't anyone think of that?
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -4/+1Hit a window and it's free dinner for me! :-D

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