October 2017 – Ohio Lights Out

WVIZ-PBS interviews Harvey Webster & Tim Jasinski about Lights Out Cleveland

By Gabriel Kramer – WVIZ-IdeaStream Every spring and fall, millions of birds migrate over Ohio but they face a threat along their way — nighttime collisions with brightly lit buildings that leave birds either injured or dead. Tim Jasinski’s group

Toledo’s tallest buildings dimming the lights to help birds migrate through the area
May 3, 2019
Toledo’s tallest buildings dimming the lights to help birds migrate through the area By Michael Bratton | Posted: Fri 11:33 PM, May 03, 2019 | Updated: Fri 11:44 PM, May 03, 2019 TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – It’s known as the biggest week in American birding and for good reason. […]
Lights Out drive gains some traction in Northeast Ohio
April 28, 2019
Lights Out drive gains some traction in Northeast Ohio by Stan Bullard. April 28, 2019 04:00 AM Lights out — or lights on? That’s the question that is beginning to roil downtown skyscraper owners and operators as a group of volunteers pushes for a Lights Out Cleveland campaign during […]
Lights Out Columbus featured on NBC4
March 25, 2019
Group encourages turning lights off to help migratory birds by: Elizabeth McGiffin Posted: Mar 25, 2019 / 10:18 PM EDT / Updated: Mar 25, 2019 / 10:18 PM EDT While all of the windows and bright lights from buildings like these in Columbus might look nice to us, for birds, they can be […]
Fox 8: Lights Out Cleveland wants downtown buildings to turn off lights to save birds
March 20, 2019
CLEVELAND– A campaign is encouraging Cleveland buildings to turn out the lights at night in an effort to save migratory birds. Ohio Lights Out and Lights Out Cleveland said building collisions are the leading cause of death in birds during migration in North America, resulting in about a half […]
Lights Out Cleveland featured on Cleveland 19 News
March 20, 2019
By Dan DeRoos | March 19, 2019 at 2:44 PM EST – Updated March 19 at 6:27 PM CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -A statewide project called Ohio Lights Out, is trying to get big buildings in big cites to turn off lights at night so that migrating birds don’t get confused and slam into them and die. Most […]
Bird-building Collision Monitoring Efforts Recognized
December 5, 2018
This past spring, students from the Ornithology Club at The Ohio State University developed a campus-wide monitoring program to check for bird-building collisions during spring and fall migration. Club co-presidents Kandace Glanville and Tyler Ficker collaborated with Chris Tonra (Assistant […]
Lights Out Cleveland featured on Fox 8 News
April 27, 2018
Tim Jasinski from the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center, along with Harvey Webster from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History were in the Fox 8 Cleveland studios this morning promoting the Lights Out Cleveland effort and the 3rd Annual Birds of Lake Erie Day. Check out the clip here: […]
New migration forecast tools available
April 10, 2018
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology recently released some new tools to better track bird migration, which could be very useful for volunteers participating in Lights Out monitoring efforts. Visit birdcast.info to explore the tools. They’ve boiled down decades of migration science, coupled it with […]
Volunteer orientation dates set for the new Lights Out Akron-Canton project
March 15, 2018
Lights Out Akron-Canton has scheduled the first set of volunteer orientations! We will most likely have a couple more after the monitoring season has begun. Volunteer Orientations: Canton: Monday, March 19th at 6:30pm. Location: Exploration Gateway, Science Classroom Address: 5712 12th St […]
Lights Out Cleveland: Monitoring & Collection Volunteers Wanted
February 15, 2018
About Lights Out Cleveland: Lights Out Cleveland is a group of local partnering organizations working together to create awareness about the effects brightly lit buildings have on nocturnally migrating birds. Through this awareness we will create change and save migrating birds’ lives. Title: […]