Mich. State: Artificial Light is Luring Birds to Cities and Sometimes to Their Deaths
December 15, 2023
December 15, 2023
EAST LANSING, Michigan, Dec. 15 (TNSres) -- Michigan State University issued the following news:
Nearly 1,000 birds were killed Oct. 4-5 when they collided with an illuminated glass building in Chicago. Though mass fatalities of this magnitude are rare, light pollution poses a serious - and growing - threat to migrating birds.
In the largest study of its kind, published in Nature Communications, scientists used weather radar data to map bird stopover density in the Unit . . .
Nearly 1,000 birds were killed Oct. 4-5 when they collided with an illuminated glass building in Chicago. Though mass fatalities of this magnitude are rare, light pollution poses a serious - and growing - threat to migrating birds.
In the largest study of its kind, published in Nature Communications, scientists used weather radar data to map bird stopover density in the Unit . . .