Warning to our readers: this isn’t the typical Washington, D.C., story about stubborn partisanship and the inability to get anything done.
In the month of April, Congress got to work and passed the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act. The law renews an existing program that funds the protection of bird habitat outside the U.S., supporting America’s migratory birds that spend only part of their year here.
As many as a billion birds die each year by colliding with buildings, often because they didn’t realize the sky and clouds before them were reflections from a thick pane of glass.