⁸Turn off light for fall and spring migration
https://www.audubon.org/conservation/project/lights-out
https://sfenvironment.org/article/p...ff building lights at,planet as well as birds
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/...a-seeks-ease-path-migrating-birds/3636923001/
Audubon’s Lights Out program is a national effort to reduce this problem. The strategy is simple: by convincing building owners and managers to turn off excess lighting during the months migrating birds are flying overhead, we help to provide them safe passage between their nesting and wintering grounds.
Here are ways to contribute to the Lights Out solution:
Turn off exterior decorative lighting
Extinguish pot and flood-lights
Substitute strobe lighting wherever possible
Reduce atrium lighting wherever possible
Turn off interior lighting especially on higher stories
Substitute task and area lighting for workers staying late or pull window coverings
Down-shield exterior lighting to eliminate horizontal glare and all light directed upward
Install automatic motion sensors and controls wherever possible
When converting to new lighting assess quality and quantity of light needed, avoiding over-lighting with newer, brighter technology
Turning off bright lights helps birds move on within minutes, as discovered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and New York City Audubon during the annual 9/11 memorial in New York City.
'Lights Out Northeast Florida' seeks to ease path for migrating birds
Laura S. Rivera-LopezJacksonville Florida Times-Union USA t the Canada and travel through the length of the eastern United States on their way to their wintering grounds in the Caribbean and Central America. Zoo and Audubon Society members are asking the community to keep lights off at night so that migratory birds don't get disoriented and lost during their journey.
Every year migrating birds make their journeys from one region to another as climates and resources change, and every year they face certain perils.
The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens and Duval and St. Johns County Audubon societies have launched an effort to try to clear the way: "Lights Out Northeast Florida." The initiative asks the community to turn nighttime lights off during the migratory seasons to aid in the birds' instinctive sensories.
“Because these birds migrate at night and use the stars and moon as directional cues, the bright lights on our homes and They generally come through the area between mid-April and mid-May and return
Twice a year — Florida’s migration seasons are September to November in the fall and February to May in the spring — billions of birds take off in the migratory seasons on known paths at night. They include warblers, songbirds and seabirds that face many challenges, but one that has become increasingly difficult to overcome has been light pollution.
The goal of Lights Out Northeast Florida is to raise awareness on how people and businesses can prevent unintentionally disrupting the birds. The groups suggest turning off lights during the darkest period at night or reduce their lights and direct them to point downward, instead of upward in the sky.
Northeast Florida isn’t the only area with this kind of project. Other cities such as Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia have also created similar projects during migration seasons.
https://www.audubon.org/conservation/project/lights-out
https://sfenvironment.org/article/p...ff building lights at,planet as well as birds
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/...a-seeks-ease-path-migrating-birds/3636923001/
Audubon’s Lights Out program is a national effort to reduce this problem. The strategy is simple: by convincing building owners and managers to turn off excess lighting during the months migrating birds are flying overhead, we help to provide them safe passage between their nesting and wintering grounds.
Here are ways to contribute to the Lights Out solution:
Turn off exterior decorative lighting
Extinguish pot and flood-lights
Substitute strobe lighting wherever possible
Reduce atrium lighting wherever possible
Turn off interior lighting especially on higher stories
Substitute task and area lighting for workers staying late or pull window coverings
Down-shield exterior lighting to eliminate horizontal glare and all light directed upward
Install automatic motion sensors and controls wherever possible
When converting to new lighting assess quality and quantity of light needed, avoiding over-lighting with newer, brighter technology
Turning off bright lights helps birds move on within minutes, as discovered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and New York City Audubon during the annual 9/11 memorial in New York City.
'Lights Out Northeast Florida' seeks to ease path for migrating birds
Laura S. Rivera-LopezJacksonville Florida Times-Union USA t the Canada and travel through the length of the eastern United States on their way to their wintering grounds in the Caribbean and Central America. Zoo and Audubon Society members are asking the community to keep lights off at night so that migratory birds don't get disoriented and lost during their journey.
Every year migrating birds make their journeys from one region to another as climates and resources change, and every year they face certain perils.
The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens and Duval and St. Johns County Audubon societies have launched an effort to try to clear the way: "Lights Out Northeast Florida." The initiative asks the community to turn nighttime lights off during the migratory seasons to aid in the birds' instinctive sensories.
“Because these birds migrate at night and use the stars and moon as directional cues, the bright lights on our homes and They generally come through the area between mid-April and mid-May and return
Twice a year — Florida’s migration seasons are September to November in the fall and February to May in the spring — billions of birds take off in the migratory seasons on known paths at night. They include warblers, songbirds and seabirds that face many challenges, but one that has become increasingly difficult to overcome has been light pollution.
The goal of Lights Out Northeast Florida is to raise awareness on how people and businesses can prevent unintentionally disrupting the birds. The groups suggest turning off lights during the darkest period at night or reduce their lights and direct them to point downward, instead of upward in the sky.
Northeast Florida isn’t the only area with this kind of project. Other cities such as Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia have also created similar projects during migration seasons.
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