F.L.A.P stands for Fatal Light Awareness Program and is an organization in Toronto, On that is dedicated to making the city a safer place for wildlife. While focused on birds they are also determined to make the city safer for other animals as well.
I met up with one of the volunteers at five am last fall to do one of the tours around the downtown core looking for any injured or dead birds. After carefully catching the injured birds they put them into brown paper bags and wait for them to calm down. If their injuries are extreme they bring them to the Toronto Wildlife Centre but if they were just stunned F.L.A.P will take them to the outskirts of the city to realease them.











































1) A single hummingbird with a tag around its ankle lays dead in the hand
of one of the volunteers.
2) The FLAP office is in the basement of one of the least bird safe office towers in downtown Toronto.
3) A display box used by FLAP volunteers to explain the range of migratory birds that are effected by the unsafe conditions the downtown core to school children.
4) A FLAP volunteer cradling a pigeon that has just struck a window in the downtown core.

Since starting F.L.A.P Cities like Chicago, Seattle and NYC formed groups to protect Migratory birds.