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UNM scientists find blue light makes buildings more deadly to migrating birds - EurekAlert


<p>Bird collisions with buildings are nothing new, but a new study by scientists at The University of New Mexico sheds light on a potential cause.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>The study, &quot;Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of bird-building collisions in a tropical Asian city using geological niche modeling,&quot; led by UNM scientists David Tan and Nicholas Freymueller, was recently published in the journal <em>Conservation Biology</em>. It presents a novel finding revealing that night-migrating birds are at greater risk of colliding with buildings lit up with high levels of blue light at night, a factor that has not been extensively studied before.</p>

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