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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
By Lauren Wilson – News 5 Cleveland CLEVELAND – It’s that time of year again, birds of all kinds start to migrate out of Ohio in droves, but they face a threat along their way—collisions into buildings beaming with bright
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
Posted on September 29, 2017 at 12:28 PM By James F. McCarty, The Plain Dealer – jmccarty@plaind.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — In the predawn darkness on a steamy mid-September morning, hours before the downtown sidewalks bustle with commuters, a dozen people
