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Wide awake: Light pollution keeps magpies and pigeons tossing and turning – EurekAlert
La Trobe University and University of Melbourne researchers find light comparable in intensity to street lighting can disrupt the length, structure and intensity of sleep in magpies and pigeons
IMAGE: Study found both magpies and pigeons average 10 hours of sleep per night with magpies losing more NREM sleep under white light than amber light. Pigeons on the other hand…
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Credit: Photographer Doug Gimesy
Researchers are urging city-dwellers to switch off their garden lights at night-time after a study of magpies and pigeons revealed the harmful impact artificial light is having on the birds’ sleep patterns.
The study by La Trobe University and University of Melbourne, …
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