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The Lights Out Program

With footholds in 30-plus North American cities, Audubon’s Lights Out program is an effort to help birds safely migrate between nesting and wintering grounds.

eBird

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird website offers interactive bar charts for bird observations by month and year. (Download the app to add your own bird sightings.)

Cornell Lab

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a leader in bird research and critical part of for BirdCast. It’s also home to eBird and the Macaulay Library of photos, videos and sound recordings.

Tips & Tools You Can Use

View resources on the Lights Out Louisville site that provide tips and tools for residents and building owners and managers in the Louisville area.

BirdCast’s Lights Out Page

The BirdCast team joins the growing Lights Out effort in proposing and implementing one solution to keep light pollution from harming birds—and it’s as simple as flipping a switch.

BirdCast Live Migration Maps

BirdCast offers real-time maps—produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—that show the intensities of actual nocturnal bird migration.