Alarmists Want You to Turn off Lights, Close Blinds so 'One Billion Birds' Won't Die

[Kamaji]

Cuckoo:  Alarmists Want You to Turn off Lights, Close Blinds so 'One Billion Birds' Won't Die

By Mike Miller
August 20, 2023

People of America! I have an urgent plea! Please, for the sake of America's birdbrains, turn off your lights and shutter your blinds! Otherwise, you're likely an accomplice in the brutal murder of one billion birds!

OK, that was a bit hyperbolic and a tad misleading. Let's try it again.

The National Audubon Society, a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats, is asking Americans to make their communities "bird safe" in a concerted effort to prevent more than "one billion birds" dying per year from flying into closed windows.

The bird group told WBAL-TV in Baltimore that "lighting and reflectivity, specifically during migration for birds, is a really dangerous problem and kills up to one billion birds in North America per year."

I'll get to the very fuzzy math relative to how they came up with one billion later.

Audubon Senior Coordinator for Bird-Friendly Communities Erin Reed Miller told the outlet that she and another community activist collect 500 birds every four months from around approximately 25 buildings in Baltimore.

Lindsay Jacks, director of  Lights Out Baltimore, also told the outlet:

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Source:  https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/08/20/cuckoo-alarmists-want-you-to-turn-off-lights-close-blinds-so-one-billion-birds-wont-die-n2162834

[SZonian]

FTA: "Finally, which comes as a real "shocker," the Audubon Society joined a coalition to ask the United States Senate for a stronger climate bill, to "ensure a rapid transition to clean energy."

Yep, keep putting up the bird choppers while telling Americans they're culpable for the mass murder of birds if they don't turn off lights.   

Whatta Buncha BS.

[Kamaji]

FTA: "Finally, which comes as a real "shocker," the Audubon Society joined a coalition to ask the United States Senate for a stronger climate bill, to "ensure a rapid transition to clean energy."

Yep, keep putting up the bird choppers while telling Americans they're culpable for the mass murder of birds if they don't turn off lights.   

Whatta Buncha BS.

[Wingnut]

What a birdbrain idea.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Not so much light, but more reflectivity.

Birds see reflections of trees in my windows.  When hawks attack, and the prey birds scatter, a couple my inevitably crash into a window thinking they are flying towards trees.

The local Audubon Society sells stickers/decals you wan put on the windows to discourage the wayward birds from leaving an imprint of the Holy Spirit on my windows.

Mostly, its mourning doves .. they are dumb and slow.