Ornithology &
Nature Access
Save a Billion Birds, Improve Lives
ZLI's Save a Billion Birds™ Campaign supports research in the photobiology, sensory ecology and integrative biology of birds. Its most important programs as of 2026 are ZLI's Little Birds Initiative™ to protect birds from glass collisions, ZLI's Biking for Birds™ to enhance meaningful nature access for all, and the ZLI Save a Billion Birds! Media Suite (The Green Year™, Reparations™, Save a Billion Birds!™, du Maurier™, and Petah's Party™)
As with all ZLI Campaigns, funding is sought to support science via Endowment Grants, Post-Docs, and Research Partnerships. The ZLI Save a Billion Birds! Campaign adds collision monitoring and ornithilogical parameters to ZALA Monitoring. ZLI's Biking for Birds is an attempt to improve nature access by including underserved communities in citizen science collision monitoring.
ZLI's Save a Billion Birds! also pursues a unique real estate donation program as part of its AWASH efforts. ZLI's Little Birds Initiative offers tax deductions for bird-friendly building shell donations to The Zoological Lighting Institute. ZLI Certification is simple, requiring all building surfaces to meet ABC Threat Factors of 20 or less. Silver (10), Gold (5), and Platinum (1) Certification are also available, and described at www.saveabillionbirds.org.
Read the recent press release from the campaign: "After the Pandemic: The Inter-Nationalist Wildlife Conservation Initiative".
Help us fund the sciences of light and life to save animals and protect our environment!
Support the Campaign
There are several ways you can support ZLI, the Save a Billion Birds™ Campaign, and its Send a Songbird™ programs
Photo Sciences Research
Help ZLI fund and pursue research through scholarships, research programs, post-doctorates, research labs and endowed professorship.
Subjets include light-related bird physiology, sensory ecology, and the integrative biology of birds with stress upon their ecological impacts across the hemspheres.
Film & Media
Help ZLI fund the upcoming PhotoDiversity Media projects, including The Green Year™, Reparations™, Save a Billion Birds!™, du Maurier™, and Petah's Party™. Each of these projects, from anime to live action and stop motion, raises the alarm on bird collisions, while respecting the emotional and intellectual intelligence of their audiences.
ZLI's Little Birds Initiative Fund
Bird-friendly design is a necessary aspect of any architecture with claims to sustainability. No building is meaningfully green if it kills birds. ZLI can advise on bird-friendly design, but more importantly as a 501 c(3) we can incentivize and fund it. Donate cash, property (whole or part) to ZLI, receive a US tax deduction, earmarked for our ZLI Little Birds Initiative Fund.
ZLI's Biking for Birds
Equitable nature access for all is crucial to prevent birds from colliding with glass. Many organizations recognize the need to monitor collisions and so put the issue to the front and center of sustainability efforts. ZLI's Biking for Birds™ improves collision monitoring by focusing on under-served communities, creating outing clubs that combine bird watching with responsible data collection.
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