The Effects of Anthropogenic Light on Migratory Birds

• Laura Schumacher

  Juniata College

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• Jessica Aragon

  Juniata College

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All over the world there has been an expansion of light pollution. As light pollution increases, scientists begin to wonder whether this can have a negative impact on a bird’s migration pattern. We hypothesized that there would be more mortality rates of the genus Ammodramus as light scores of structures increased. We looked at two factors, light scores ranging from 1-10 would be the lower light levels, and light scores ranging from 10-20 were higher light levels. Our results reveal that mortality rates correlate with light scores. This means our hypothesis can be supported.

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