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Bird Deaths in Washington DC Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program

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Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program By Corey • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share City Wildife , an organization in Washington D.C. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. capital, has released a report on the deadliest buildings in Washington D.C. for migratory birds.

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Mortgage-free light

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This week’s trip took me to Washington DC and we stay to the south west of IA Dulles in an area dense with glass buildings. We had already had to deploy the stepladder to raise my diminutive frame above the fence line. I was delighted to see that a back-lit bill could be achieved at the same time as a highlight in the eye.

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Critters (and Couture!) For The Cure

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Critters for the Cure is hosting an event to help raise money to help women battling cancer. Critters for the Cure , a DC non-profit providing financial aid to women with cancer, will host Critters (and Couture!) We love it when people and animals come together for a great cause!

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. But, yes, there are photographs of dead birds and x-ray images of the damage done to individual birds and photographs of the annual FLAP display, as shown below.

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A Remembrance of Birds Past: The Lost Bird Project

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The birds on display at Audubon through next April are just one of a number of traveling sets; others can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisc., and elsewhere. And one set of the sculptures is broken up, scattered.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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Sadly, the only way to see what this bird may have been like in life is to visit one of 15 collections worldwide that currently hold one of the 19 existing specimens such as the Natural History Museum in Paris or the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. … Extinction is forever. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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What’s in a Name: What’s in a Baby Name?

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Unfortunately, thanks to the jerks at DC Comics, most people are not going to associate this name with the birds so much as with perennial second-fiddlehood and green tights. Phoebe – Another name that won’t raise too many eyebrows, and you’ll introduce your child to the fact that phonics is a lie early.

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