Long Point, Norfolk County Ontario is famous amongst birders, especially during the spring and fall migration. It’s a natural stopover point for birds crossing Lake Erie and the bright beam of a lighthouse, especially in poor visibility, can be deadly to migrating birds. In early September 1929, Keeper Lorne Brown found hundreds of injured or dead birds at the base of the tower and contacted William E. Saunders, an avid naturalist, to see if he was interested in taking a look. The following year, Saunders published a paper entitled “The Destruction of Birds at Long Point Lighthouse, Ontario, on Four Nights in 1929,” which noted that 1,237 birds of fifty-five types had been killed at the lighthouse. Another paper published in 2003 studied the number of bird kills at Long Point Lighthouse between 1960 and 2003 and concluded that the character of the light has a drastic impact on avian mortality. Automated in 1989 & the light replaced by LED has drastically reduction the number of kills.