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Title: Fewer Birds Trapped by 9/11 Tribute Lights This Year Post by: Donna on 14-Sep-11, 07:48:49 AM http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/tribute-in-lights-birds/ (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/tribute-in-lights-birds/)
New York City Audubon volunteers who monitored the lights all night reported a peak of about 100 birds around 2 a.m., and about 700 altogether. It was a far cry from last year, when an estimated 10,000 birds were caught over the course of the night, circling in confusion until the lights were temporarily shuttered five separate times |