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NYC sky-scrapers dim lights to help migratory birds
A growing number of New York sky-scrapers are switching off their lights to help reduce the number of birds hitting the high-rise buildings.
The "lights out" project - organised by NYC Audubon - runs until 1 November, when migratory birds are expected to have completed their autumn
migrations.
A similar project in Toronto, Canada, suggests that "across North America, more birds die from collisions each year than succumbed to the Exxon Valdez
oil spill", which claimed the lives of in excess of 250,000 birds.
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Mark Stevenson
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Sounds like good news. I wonder how much $$ they will save on electricity and whether they will like the savings enough to make it a standard
practice.
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