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Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP)

OUR MISSION: Working to safeguard migratory birds in the urban environment through education, research, rescue and rehabilitation.

OUR VISION: Create a 24-hour collision free urban environment for migratory birds.

Recent Blog Posts

Through Trillium Funding, FLAP Announces New Staffperson

Thanks to a generous grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) has had the great good fortune to hire Paloma Plant as our full-time Program Coordinator. A FLAP founding member and tireless volunteer, Paloma…


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LEED Introduces Bird Collision Prevention Pilot Credit

The long-sought dream of having LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) introduce the bird building collision issue into it’s rating system has finally arrived.  This Fall, the U.S. Green Building Council introduced Pilot Credit 55:   Bird Collision Prevention. The…


San Francisco Mandates Bird-Safe Building Standards

In July 2011, San Francisco took the bold and beautiful step to become another major city in the world to mandate bird-safe building measures.  It’s Standards for Bird-Safe Buildings includes requirements for location-related hazards and building feature-related hazards.  It’s feature-related…