LINK Philly to dim lights to make it safer for birds in flight
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Fort Pierce (Florida, USA) on the beach does that for the Turtles...the street lights are almost an eerie orange-red in the evening.
Robecology
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Mar 15, 2021
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This began decades ago & we are building on our successes albeit too late for some. Larger metropolises are slowly getting on board.
@Mooolah You get a serious fine if you have one light bulb facing the beach.
Great idea, hope it works.
OldGoat43
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Mar 14, 2021
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It will help. Birds migrating at night become disoriented by the lights & crash into the windows. In the morning there are many little bodies at the foot of the buildings. Warblers, thrushes, and other migrants. The population is crashing & anything that is not a hindrance is a positive in this case. The bodies in Milwaukee were collected & sent to the University for study. A sad ending to the hundreds of miles of travel.
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