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Every year, millions of birds make their way across Scott and Rock Island County during the spring and fall.
Some of these birds we can see during the daytime, overloading trees and power lines, but most make their journeys under the cover of darkness.
This happenstance causes the birds to contend with our light pollution, which can be disorienting, confusing, and exhausting for the birds on their already tiresome journey.
Luckily, the quick solution is as simple as turning off unnecessary lights.
River action.
located in Davenport, plans to continue doing just that with the Centennial Bridge this autumn in hopes that this will encourage others in the community, be they business or individual, to follow suit.
According to BirdCast.org, a website sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Colorado University and UMass Amherst, Fall migration begins as early as mid-August and continues through November, listed specifically as August 15th through November 30th, with peak nightly averages in September.
The birds are tracked using radar technology, and a live cast is updated daily during migration to show the approximate number of birds migrating and the altitude at which they are flying.
The website includes updated graphs, which depict the total number of birds crossed during the migration period and the number of birds recorded in flight each night.
Each graph is compared to an historic average.
For autumn, the peak bird migration for our area could be argued as being the end of August through the month of October for fall migration.
According to this data, excess light pollution should be reduced as much as possible starting no later than August 15th and resuming no earlier than November 1st each year.
River Action understands the cultural importance of the bridge lights in the Quad Cities and wants to leave them on until the river bandits complete their season, which happens around the middle of September.
Birds today face an increasing number of challenges related to urbanization, such as predation from invasive species like house cats.
Yes, your outdoor cat does act as an invasive species.
habitat loss, pollution, collision with cars, and light pollution.
It is up to us to do all that we can to be mindful of and minimize these impacts as much as possible.
River Action's hope is that more citizens within the community will make these small changes in order to help the Quad Cities become a more environmentally friendly and mindful place.
Every year, millions of birds make their way across Scott and Rock Island County during the spring and fall.
Some of these birds we can see during the daytime, overloading trees and power lines, but most make their journeys under the cover of darkness.
This happenstance causes the birds to contend with our light pollution, which can be disorienting, confusing, and exhausting for the birds on their already tiresome journey.
Luckily, the quick solution is as simple as turning off unnecessary lights.
River action.
located in Davenport, plans to continue doing just that with the Centennial Bridge this autumn in hopes that this will encourage others in the community, be they business or individual, to follow suit.
According to BirdCast.org, a website sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Colorado University and UMass Amherst, Fall migration begins as early as mid-August and continues through November, listed specifically as August 15th through November 30th, with peak nightly averages in September.
The birds are tracked using radar technology, and a live cast is updated daily during migration to show the approximate number of birds migrating and the altitude at which they are flying.
The website includes updated graphs, which depict the total number of birds crossed during the migration period and the number of birds recorded in flight each night.
Each graph is compared to an historic average.
For autumn, the peak bird migration for our area could be argued as being the end of August through the month of October for fall migration.
According to this data, excess light pollution should be reduced as much as possible starting no later than August 15th and resuming no earlier than November 1st each year.
River Action understands the cultural importance of the bridge lights in the Quad Cities and wants to leave them on until the river bandits complete their season, which happens around the middle of September.
Birds today face an increasing number of challenges related to urbanization, such as predation from invasive species like house cats.
Yes, your outdoor cat does act as an invasive species.
habitat loss, pollution, collision with cars, and light pollution.
It is up to us to do all that we can to be mindful of and minimize these impacts as much as possible.
River Action's hope is that more citizens within the community will make these small changes in order to help the Quad Cities become a more environmentally friendly and mindful place.
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