AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The 2025 bird migration season is underway. As we look to the sky to watch our feathered friends gracefully fly across it, it's a time for us to remember that we have a role in bird conservation during this period.
The migration season started Aug. 15. It is expected that as many as two million birds will be moving over Texas.
Rich Segal spoke with Lisa Gonzalez, vice president and executive director of Audubon Texas. She mentions a troubling trend continues as bird populations have been on a decline. That decline can be reversed but it takes the combined efforts of all of us to make that happen.
It doesn't take much for people to help reverse the trend. It's as simple as turning off unnecessary lights during nighttime hours. She said birds do a lot of their migration during the nighttime hours.
Gonzalez also promotes Audubon Texas' Bird Cast. It's a migration forecast system that monitors the birds' migration. It uses weather radar and other weather data that provides the forecasts for when the birds migrate during the nighttime hours.
