News

  • September 25, 2025Migration Celebration at Cornell Lab: We have a winner!

    BirdCast presented at the annual Migration Celebration at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on September 13. Celebrating the spectacle of bird migration, visitors could learn how to use BirdCast’s Migration Tools, participate in the BirdCast quiz bowl, and learn more about how to stop bird collisions at the table of the Bird Collision Prevention Alliance, a new partnership that BirdCast participates in.

  • October 8, 2025A new record night of migration for BirdCast! AGAIN!

    We said BILLION twice before in BirdCast history, on 6 October 2023 and on 25 September 2025! Amazing! Welcome back to the billion bird night club! Again! For the third time! 8 October 2025! The third epic night did not stop at a billion either: no, it grew beyond that, and beyond 1.1 billion, beyond 1.2 billion, all the way to 1.25 billion, becoming the biggest night of migration yet recorded by BirdCast!

  • February 12, 2026Photometrics AI Integrates Data from Bird Migration Forecasts to Automatically Dim Streetlights to Protect Birds

    System uses BirdCast data to enable real-time lighting adjustments during peak migration events and reduce the number of birds colliding with buildings

  • March 1, 2026Spring Migration 2026 Begins – With a Fresh New Look

    The BirdCast Team is pleased to welcome you back to our suite of migration tools for Spring 2026! Frequent visitors may notice that BirdCast has a fresh new look. Over the winter, we’ve worked hard to redesign and improve the…

  • Canada Geese migrate at sunset
    March 18, 2026BirdCast Email Migration Alerts now available in 216 cities

    Subscribe to automated Migration Alert emails for a city near you

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