Birdcast migration forecast for the nights of 10 & 11 Sept 2025 (screenshots from Birdcast)
10 September 2025
BirdCast predicts that the subsequent two nights, 10 and 11 September, will probably be improbable for chook migration. The forecast screenshots, above, present that 261,000,000 to 294,000,000 birds will go over the continental US in simply two nights. Tonight and Thursday evening it’s Lights Out For Birds, Please! Sure, flip lights out at residence. In the event you’re not aware of what to do, learn on.
Birds that migrate at evening use celestial lights for navigation and are sometimes fooled by and drawn to our electrical lights. That is very true of warblers who hatched in darkish sky locations and are unfamiliar with human lights. They collide with lit buildings or exhaust themselves flying circles round them.
Isn’t chook collision only a tall constructing downside? No. Amazingly the toll at houses — in whole — is increased than whole collisions at tall buildings as a result of there are such a lot of extra houses.
The lights at this home would idiot migratory birds. (Luckily it’s lit for Christmas when no birds are migrating.)
Your house might need an issue you’re not conscious of.
Do birds hit your sliding glass door? Do you discover useless birds sometimes under your home windows? You are able to do your bit on excessive migration nights by closing drapes and turning off exterior lights. (Movement detection lights are positive.)
The cool factor is that you just don’t should be a constructing supervisor or a scientist to assist migratory birds. You possibly can assist them with Lights Out practices on the few excessive migration nights every season.
Unsure why birds hit your own home? See this text about birds and home windows: Suppose Like A Chicken, What Do You See?
Learn extra about Birdcast, lights out, and chook statistics right here: BirdCast: Lights Out.
