Still, Sallinger said there is work to do and he is confident that Oregonians will be on board. “A lot of that has to do with habitat loss, but also hazards and light pollution is a big hazard,” Sallinger said.Ĭomparatively, Oregon’s light population isn’t as severe as other states. In addition to struggling with light pollution, many bird populations are in decline. “So we look forward to continuing to work with the city of Portland and other jurisdictions to accomplish that goal.” “There’s a tremendous opportunity here to put into place common-sense policies,” Sallinger said. The project got suspended when COVID-19 hit, but Sallinger said the council assured the nonprofit that they were going to bring it back and pursue it. The final report was published a couple of years ago, and called for regulations to address light pollution.
The Audubon Society helped the city of Portland complete a report about light pollution as part of the city’s Dark Skies Project. It’s preventing unnecessary lighting and lighting that goes where we don’t need it.” “And that’s not just about preventing lights lights are an important part of our landscape. “We need to be adopting policies that prevent light pollution,” Sallinger said. Sallinger acknowledges there are large sources of light not operated by single households. Sallinger said it’s because Portland is toward the center of the course that birds take as they head north through West Coast states.
Out of Oregon’s three most populated cities, Portland sees the largest portion of the birds overhead.
While numbers wane throughout the week, the call to keep lights off at night continues through Friday night when over 3 million birds are anticipated to pass over the state. On Tuesday alone, nearly 5 million birds were expected to migrate over Oregon skies. 13, 2016 file photo, the moon is visible in the background as a multitude of migratory Vaux's Swifts flock around a brick chimney at Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Ore.
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