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Millions of migrating birds fly over DC each spring, but many don’t make it. That’s where these folks step in.Lights Out DC volunteer Ethan Ableman holds a warbler that died from a window collision near Union Station in DC. Photograph by Jessica Ruf.
“We’re entering the peak right now, so I’m expecting to find birds every time I go out, unless the radar says otherwise,” says Ableman, who tracks migration patterns via. The evening prior, the site predicted “high” levels of migration, with more than 20,000 birds per kilometer flying over DC in the night.
Back on our walk, it’s not long before we find a second dead warbler outside a neighboring building. Its limp body was likewise scooped into another Ziploc bag. “This is a good vantage point about what the issue is,” says Ableman. “ looks like you could keep flying straight through beautiful Senate Park.”
Still, any data helps. At the end of the year, Lights Out DC tallies up its totals—how many of each species were killed, which buildings were associated with the most deaths—and then provides a report to Fish and Wildlife Services as well as the District.Migratory Local Wildlife Protection Acteverything else will still need to be retrofitted,” says Dalke. “It’s really great that the bill was passed, but now we have to focus on fixing the problematic ones .
Otherwise, she says an easy, cost-free alternative is to do as the group’s name implies—turn off lights between 11 PM and 6 AM during migration seasons.
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