Lights Out Texas is a program in several Texas cities such as Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth. The purpose is to raise awareness of the dangers lights from buildings pose to birds that migrate at night. Participating cities encourage building owners to turn off lights during nighttime hours in migration season. The program is very successful. With less confusing lighting at night, fewer birds fly into buildings. The city of Fort Worth participated for the first time this past spring. Many local structures in and around the downtown area complied. Let’s keep encouraging folks to do the right thing and thank our city leaders for helping make this a reality. Fall migration season is upon us as you’ll see in the graphic below.
