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Light Pollution
It is easy to take good lighting for granted. But for birds that are migrating at night, the bright lights can disorient them and increase the risk of collisions with buildings and other human-made structures. By following best practices for reducing unnecessary lighting, such as lights out programs that are being adopted by many cities, we can help keep our skies darker and safer for migratory birds that travel by night.

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We mapped the current footprint of light pollution as a binary surface by identifying 3-km cells with any nighttime lights (i.e., values ≥ 1 on a scale from 0 to 255) as captured by NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights dataset (Román et al. 2018).

Most relevant IUCN - CMP Unified Direct Threat Classification
9.6.1. Light pollution 


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Light Pollution
It is easy to take good lighting for granted. But for birds that are migrating at night, the bright lights can disorient them and increase the risk of collisions with buildings and other human-made structures. By following best practices for reducing unnecessary lighting, such as lights out programs that are being adopted by many cities, we can help keep our skies darker and safer for migratory birds that travel by night.

Data Source(s)
Processing
We mapped the current footprint of light pollution as a binary surface by identifying 3-km cells with any nighttime lights (i.e., values ≥ 1 on a scale from 0 to 255) as captured by NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights dataset (Román et al. 2018).

Most relevant IUCN - CMP Unified Direct Threat Classification
9.6.1. Light pollution 


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