Sample Letters You Can Personalize

* To Your Neighbor

* To Your Elected Official  

* To a Building Manager

Important Resources

Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Buildings PDF

Bird Cast (nightly migration forecasts)

DarkSky International publications

Losing the Dark,” a 6-min film on light pollution

Why Do Birds Collide with Buildings - Daytime

“How Do I Protect Birds?” Booklet

Reducing Collisions with Glass 

Nightscape newsletter

Suggested Reading

Scott R. Loss at al., “Bird-Building Collisions in the United States: Estimates of Annual Mortality and Species Vulnerability,” The Condor, 116(1):8-23 (2014). Nearly 1 billion birds killed in building collisions each year in the United States.

Kenneth V. Rosenberg et al., “Decline of the North American avifauna.” Science 366,120-124 (2019). Loss of more than 1 in 4 birds in North America since 1970s.

C. S. Burt et al., The effects of light pollution on migratory animal behavior. Trends Ecol. Evol. 38, 355–368 (2023).

K. G. Horton et al., Artificial light at night is a top predictor of bird migration stopover density. Nat. Commun. 14, 7446 (2023).

Building Better Cities for Birds: How Cities Are Leading the Way on Bird-Friendly Building Policy (2023)

The Co-Benefits of Bird-Friendly Building (2022)

General Bibliography of Studies, Book, Articles on Bird Collisions and Light Pollution