About two billion birds fly through Texas in the spring – and lit-up buildings pose a deadly risk. Turning out the lights at night could save countless fatal collisions.
It was a foggy Thursday morning when animal services supervisor Josh Henderson received news of a mass mortality. On May 4, 2017, 395 migratory birds died after smashing into one office tower in Galveston, Texas. Henderson rushed to the scene to witness the gruesome spectrum of feathers from yellow and orange to blue and grey of the lifeless small-featured bodies.
“It was awe-inspiring and tragic,” says Henderson, who is now the executive director of the Humane Society in Galveston.
On the move
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Most of them were : small, bright, colourful birds that are particularly abundant in Texas. They had been on their homecoming , an epic journey that takes them from wintering sites as far south as Mexico to nesting sites as far north as Canada, according to the , a US-based bird conservation group.
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