Folks, In the spirit of recent discussions from Geoff, John, and Chris, I thought list members might be interested in this from the May 2016 issue of /The Condor/:
Anthropogenic light is associated with increased vocal activity by nocturnally migrating birds *Matthew J. Watson ^1, <http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1#aff1>^a <http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1#n101>* <http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1#cor1>, David R. Wilson ^1, <http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1#aff1>^b <http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1#n102>, and Daniel J. Mennill ^1 <http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1#aff1>* <http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1#cor1>* http://aoucospubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-15-136.1 These results certainly suggest that comparing call numbers from urban and rural sites is problematic. It's not clear to me what impact an isolated light might have. Yours, Laura Gooch P.S. If you need a hand with getting access to the full article, let me know off of the list. -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --