Sample Letters You Can Personalize & Send

* To Your Neighbor

* To Your Elected Official  

* To Building Manager

Marketing & Outreach Materials

Lights Out CT Poster (COLOR)

Lights Out CT Poster (LOW INK)

Lights Out CT Brochure

Living Bird-Friendly (webpage & Flyer)

Lights Out CT Local Leaders ~ Presentation Slide Deck

Lights Out CT Pledge Form

Lights Out CT * Media Toolkit

Lights Out CT * Partner/Member Outreach Round-Up

State-level Lighting Rules: “Lights Out CT” Bill (2023) & CT State Building Code

Public Act No. 23-143 (formerly H.B. 6607): “An Act Concerning Nighttime Lighting of
State-Owned Buildings at Certain Times for the Protection of Birds.”

2022 Connecticut State Building Code (including Errata #1)

**Photos of Light Pollution at CT State-owned Buildings

Suggested Reading & Bibliography

Bibliography of Studies, Book, Articles on Bird Collisions and Light Pollution

Scott R. Loss at al., “Bird-Building Collisions in the United States: Estimates of Annual Mortality and Species Vulnerability,” The Condor, 116(1):8-23 (2014). Nearly 1 billion birds killed in building collisions each year in the United States.

Kenneth V. Rosenberg et al., “Decline of the North American avifauna.” Science 366,120-124 (2019). Loss of more than 1 in 4 birds in North America since 1970s.

C. S. Burt et al., The effects of light pollution on migratory animal behavior. Trends Ecol. Evol. 38, 355–368 (2023).

K. G. Horton et al., Artificial light at night is a top predictor of bird migration stopover density. Nat. Commun. 14, 7446 (2023).

Building Better Cities for Birds: How Cities Are Leading the Way on Bird-Friendly Building Policy (2023), by Meredith Barges & Viveca Morris

FACTSHEET: The Co-Benefits of Bird-Friendly Building, by Meredith Barges

Important Resources

Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Buildings PDF

IDA publications

Losing the Dark,” a 6-min film on light pollution

Why Do Birds Collide with Buildings - Daytime

“How Do I Protect Birds?” Booklet

Reducing Collisions with Glass 

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