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This year, Tropical Audubon Society and Audubon successfully launched the Lights Out Miami, fulfilling a goal that Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Communities team set for itself to establish Lights Out programs in each of the largest 15 metropolitan areas in the United States. Helping Get Lights Out Programs to Top 15 Metro Areas With this new law, Illinois joins Minnesota, New York City, and several cities in California who have passed similar bird protection legislation. It will also require that, when possible, outside building lighting is appropriately shielded to protect wildlife. At least 90 percent of the exposed façade material on new state buildings will be need to be made of glass that helps stop bird collisions.

This new law will require the use of bird-friendly construction techniques for all new construction or renovation of Illinois state-owned buildings. The law requires bird-friendly design to be incorporated into the construction and renovation of state-owned buildings in Illinois. In July, Last week, Illinois took an important step to minimize the impact of our built environment when Governor Pritzker signed the Bird Safe Buildings Act (HB 247).

Supporting Passage of Illinois Bird-friendly Building Law Keep reading to see the most important ways that our flock worked together this year. We're very proud of what we have been able to accomplish together over the past 12 months. All of the accomplishments listed below come from the hard work and dedication of our members, chapters, volunteers, and staff. Through early-December, more than 170,000 of us contacted decision-makers more than 1,085,000 times on behalf of birds. This year our conservation leaders, bird advocates, college students, ambassadors, volunteers, and scientists accomplished amazing things.