An annual light-show tribute to those lost in the September 11 attacks threatens tens of thousands of migratory birds each year, according to researchers. The ” Tribute in Light “—two beams shining four miles into the Manhattan sky—is created using88 7,000-watt xenon light bulbs positioned into two 48-foot squares on the roof of a garage just south of the 9/11 Memorial. But every year, the intense searchlights pull approximately 160,000 migrating birds off course, the New York Times reports . Between 2008 and 2016, the light show distracted 1.1 million birds, according to Kyle Horton at the Cornell Ornithology Lab. “The worst-case scenario is that there are birds that collide with buildings,” Horton told the CBC , “or the light directly results in the mortality of birds.” The timing of the memorial, which can be seen up to 60 miles away, coincides with the period when songbirds, sparrows and other birds annually migrate down from Canada to the southern U.S., Central and South America. The density of birds around the tribute is 150 times normal, the Times reports, and the lights also attract, bats, birds of prey and millions of insects. Per a 2009 agreement between the New York Audubon… Read full this story
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