A significant number of birds are expected to travel through the Chicago area on Tuesday night, prompting a migration alert.

Birdcast, a website dedicated to tracking migrating birds and predicting migration patterns, reported more than 28,000 birds will be in the skies per square kilometer throughout the night.

According to experts, the greatest traffic times for migrating birds typically occur between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., when hundreds of thousands of birds cross over the Chicago area on highly trafficked evenings. During such periods, residents are asked to turn off all non-essential lighting.

Bright lights can attract and disorient migrating birds and can potentially cause fatal collisions, according to Birdcast.

Since 1995, Chicago has adhered to a "Lights Out" program each migra

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