Last night we had another record-breaking bird migration movement, with an amazing 1.25 billion birds in flight over the U.S.! This time it was the East Coast’s turn with a massive southbound wave sweeping all the way from New England to East Texas. You can help keep these migrating birds safe: Turn off nonessential lights between 11 PM and 6 AM. Make windows safer by adding bird-friendly patterns or decals spaced just 2 inches apart to prevent collisions. Together, we can make the night skies s

In honor of the first day of spring (today in the Northern hemisphere!), check out this bird migration dataset. Each dot represents a different bird species. Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/bird-migration-patterns-western-hemisphere/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere