04/23/2026
Every day is Earth Day when you’re a filthy hippie like me, so please excuse the lateness of this post. 😂 There’s a lot you can do for our planet by NOT doing things, including eliminating (or cutting down on) unnecessary lighting, particularly outdoors and particularly at this time of year. Little efforts add up when we all make them. ☺️✌️🌎
Our feathered friends are on the move tonight! Spring migration is underway for hundreds of millions of birds and tonight is forecasted to be a major migration event along the entire Mississippi River Flyway, including around Minneapolis.
Most song birds migrate at night, when it is dark, or when darkness would be expected if it weren't for all of these lights we have on at night around town!
An easy and impactful way to help birds successfully navigate through our urban skies tonight and in the coming days is to turn off your lights! Turn off the lights around your home where you live, outside lights are particularly important.
Bird populations around the world have plummeted in the last few decades, what a great Earth Day activity to turn off your lights at night tonight to help many more survive this incredible flight to find nesting and breeding habitat for the season.
For more information, and to stay up to date on migration forecasts, check out Cornell Lab of Ornithology's BirdCast website at www.birdcast.org/migration-tools/migration-forecast-maps
