If you found an injured bird

• Use Animal Help Now to locate a licensed wildlife rehabilitator near you. There is an app you can download!​

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• If in Maryland, check out the Maryland Department of Natural Resources licensed wildlife rehabilitator list.

• Lights Out Baltimore works with All Creatures Great and Small Wildlife Center in Columbia, MD and Phoenix Wildlife Center in Phoenix, MD.

How to handle an injured bird
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If you found an injured bat

• For an injured bat, please contact Phoenix Wildlife Center. 

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• Bats are negatively affected by light pollution, extreme weather, and glass collisions. In a recent study, it was determined that bats have difficulty echolocating around smooth vertical surfaces (glass walls). Since 2013, Lights Out Baltimore volunteers have rescued 127 bats. 

                       

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Learn more about collisions

How to make your home bird-safe
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• American Bird Conservancy
• Fatal Light Awareness Program
• National Audubon Society​
• Federal legislation introduced
• Maryland legislation introduced ​

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Learn more about light pollution

• How light pollution lures birds into cities
• How light pollution affects bats
• International Dark Sky Association​​

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Bird safe building and lighting practices

• US Fish and Wildlife Services best practices guidelines
• ​American Bird Conservancy Bird-Friendly Building manual
• Feather Friendly Residential DIY 
• CollidEscape film 
• Acopian Birdsavers
• AviProtek Bird Friendly glass
• GlasPro-Bird Safe glass
• Best lighting options to reduce pollution

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Learn more about bats

• Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation (world leader in bat research and conservation)
• Bat Conservation International
• Bat World Sanctuary
• ​Lubee Bat Conservancy
• Bat Conservation & Rescue of Virginia 
• Pennsylvania Bat Rescue (local organization)​
• Project EduBat (Bat Education tools)

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