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‘No one wants a building that kills birds’: why cities are turning off the lights

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Around a billion birds die across the US each year in this way, one of the leading drivers of an alarming slump in numbers.

For birds travelling from darker forests or grasslands, the sudden dazzle of lights and walls of glass found in cities can be a death trap.

The buildings of Dallas , along with those of other Texan cities, are particularly lethal obstacles because they sit on the central flyway.

Dallas convention centre has installed bird-safe glass, cutting the amount of crashes by 90% last year .

Lights Out volunteers are agitating for it to install bird-friendly glass.

Three billion fewer birds in North America than there were in the 1970s , a loss that researchers have called staggering’.

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