Location Details

Bent of the River Audubon Center 185 East Flat Hill Road Southbury, CT 06488

185 East Flat Hill Road, Southbury, 06488, CT

For questions please contact Kate Pratt at kpratt@audubon.org or 203-405-9113

This program will be held in the barn so please drive up the one lane road and park in the staff lot.

ight Pollution and Birds

Millions of birds pass through Connecticut every spring and fall on their way to and from their summer nesting grounds. Because our state is located along the Atlantic Flyway, many birds use our shorelines and green spaces to rest and refuel during their trip. 

But light pollution has wreaked havoc on our night sky. Artificial light emitted by our homes, buildings, street lights, bridges, and other structures can confuse and disorient birds, causing them to land near buildings, crash into windows, and/or circle around for hours until they drop from exhaustion. The result is catastrophic: Nearly 1 billion bird deaths in North America each year. 

Meredith Barges is co-chair of Lights Out CT and former researcher for the Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative. She co-authored Building Safer Cities for Birds: How Cities Are Leading the Way on Bird-Friendly Building Policy, a first-of-its-kind report that considers how city policies can accelerate the adoption of bird-friendly building design at scale to significantly reduce avian mortality.