US city to dim lights at night to make it safer for birds in flight
Joseph Kaczmarek/AP Bird Safe Philly announced that Philadelphia is joining a US-wide Lights Out initiative, a voluntary program in which as many external and internal lights in buildings are turned off or dimmed at night during bird migration seasons. The lights of US city Philadelphia might not shine as bright in the coming weeks as a coalition in the City of Brotherly Love tries to prevent millions of migrating birds that pass through twice a year from slamming into skyscrapers and crashing to the footpath. Bird Safe Philly on Thursday (local time) announced the Lights Out Philly initiati...
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