While the city of Akron still sleeps, volunteers are out armed with flashlights searching, no matter the weather.
This is Lights Out Akron – part of a statewide initiative that also includes Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati and the Miami Valley. Lights Out does this every spring and fall as millions of birds migrate through Ohio during the night.
Tim Jasinski, Wildlife Rehabilitation Specialist with the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center was recently on the ECO Speaks CLE podcast to talk about Lights Out Cleveland: Show Notes: What if there was a way to save thousands of innocent
Lights Out Cleveland volunteers begin their day at five or six a.m. and their work is done by eight-thirty in the morning during migration season.
“The birds that live here know where the buildings are,” said volunteer Rich Nicholls, “but the ones that are migrating, they get confused.”
We’re entering the heart of spring migration season, when millions of birds travel north for feeding and breeding. Driving the news: Cleveland is an important pit stop, as species recharge and refuel before the aerial trek across Lake Erie. That makes Northeast Ohio both a mecca for birdwatching and…
This month marks the start of the spring migration season, when millions of songbirds travel through Central Ohio. Unfortunately, many won’t reach their destinations because they’ll collide with buildings — a deadly problem a group of volunteers wants to help solve.
Grant Sizemore of the American Bird Conservancy details how house cats can coexist with garden birds, and Matthew Shumar of the Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative describes how to make your yard more bird safe
