Kyle Horton is an assistant professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, focused on bird, bat and insect migration.

He leads CSU’s AeroEco Lab, which utilizes radar, acoustics and community science data to examine and understand avian flight strategies, population estimates, the impacts of artificial light, long-term phenological change and migration forecasting.

Specifically, Horton and colleagues published a NASA- and NSF-funded study in 2023 illuminating the threat light pollution poses for migrating bird populations – sometimes causing mass fatality events. The team’s collaborative BirdCast tool was created to help manage such risk.

Horton earned his M.S. in wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware and his Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Oklahoma.