# @featherfriendly on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DBq1jipOeTe
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24434369-featherfriendly-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/5ef15d41b5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-10-28T13:22:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Feather Friendly (@featherfriendly) — https://gondola.cc/featherfriendly

## Caption

How do we track massive bird migrations?

Through BirdCast, a project by the cornellbirds that uses weather surveillance radar to monitor millions of birds during their seasonal journeys.

The radar can distinguish birds from weather, bats, and insects by analyzing unique flight patterns and speeds, providing data on how many birds are at risk of glass collisions. The radar detects migration intensity and helps identify peak movement times.

In the visual here, you can see large numbers of birds taking flight. Circular blue and green features represent bird migration; precipitation appears as irregular bands. Source: https://birdcast.info/about/weather-surveillance-radar-and-bird-migration-primer/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_y2pddkjcf1#:~:text=Here%20at%20BirdCast%2C%20we%20turn,forecast%20and%20live%20migration%20maps.

Migrating birds are most vulnerable to window strikes after getting disoriented by city lights at night.

What can you do?

To begin with, turn off unnecessary lights at night to avoid attracting migrating birds.

Most collisions, however, happen during the day and it is the glass that eventually kills the birds. A #lightsout program will therefore be most effective when combined with a bird collision mitigation solution.

Feather Friendly visual markers or Bird Divert UV markers are that perfect solution to making your windows safer.

With millions of birds traveling through our skies every day, every effort counts in making the environment safer for them.

Learn more about the BirdCast Migration Dashboard here: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/heres-how-to-use-the-new-migration-forecast-tools-from-birdcast/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_8yyz0k1vjp

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markers, diy, lightsout, birdsafeglass, birdconservation, cornelllabs, wildlifeconservation, cornell, glass, sustainability, birds, conservation, savebirds, migration, education, treatglasssavebirds, glasscollision, birdcast, featherfriendly, greensolution, birdsafe, fallmigration, provensolution

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