WASHINGTON — Is the pursuit of fewer dropped calls leading to more dropping birds? The lights atop communications towers that warn pilots to stay away can have a come-hither effect on birds -- killing ...

When David Clothier first saw strobe lights flashing on top of some new power line towers in Douglas County, he couldn't believe how bright they were.

Estimates suggest that each year millions of birds, predominantly Neotropical migrating songbirds, collide with communication towers. To determine the relative collision risks that different nighttime ...

As a youngster, traveling with my family through the Texas countryside, often at night, I would stare out the car window at those distant, glowing red orbs, flashing on and off, on and off, the waning ...

AURORA, Neb. (KOLN) - For 60 years, the Hamilton County courthouse has acted as a beacon with four strobe lights flashing at night. Dr. Harold Edgerton, a scientist from Aurora, installed the lights ...