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Protect Birds from Glass Collisions: Dim Lights at Nights, Treat Glass By Day:

This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Learn more about bird-friendly solutions: https://www.stopbirdcollisions.org/

Every year, up to 1 billion birds die in North America after colliding with glass and becoming disoriented by artificial lights at night. But together, we can change that.

This video advocates two simple steps to protect birds where you live, work, and play:

Dim or switch off nonessential lights at night — especially during migration seasons.

Treat glass by day with bird-friendly solutions like decals, patterns, or films to make windows visible to birds.

Bird collisions are preventable — and your

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Saving Ranching to Save Wildlife

This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Most of the grasslands in the Great Plains exist as rangelands – managed and stewarded by private landowners. Yet rising costs and the fact that ranching earns less than any other land use have cut rancher numbers in half since the 1980s. As we lose these ranchers, we lose the valuable grassland ecosystems that support their livelihoods, rural communities, water and wildlife.

The Lesser Prairie-Chicken – an iconic grassland bird famous for its spring dances – has lost 97% of its population since the 1800s. With 95% of

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Searching for Lost Birds: rediscoveries, extinctions & the potential to find the remaining species

This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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The Search for Lost Birds was founded in 2021 with the goal of supporting efforts to search for and update the conservation status of birds

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