Millions of Birds Are Migrating — Here’s How To Help Keep Them Safe

SATURDAY, Oct. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — As millions of birds migrate south for the winter, many face dangerous obstacles on their journey, and experts say people can help them have a safe trip.

This week saw the biggest migration event ever recorded by the BirdCast , a bird study project at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York — 1.25 billion. Farther south, trackers at Virginia Tech University report more than 36 million birds have already migrated this fall.

But while these flights are an incredible natural event, experts say they can also be extremely dangerous.

“Birds face a variety of threats during migration — collisions with windows, communications towers and wind turbines; light pollution that disorients them; habitat loss or degradation in their migration stopover areas;