Do birds in flight respond to(ultra)violet lighting?

作     者：Roel May Jens Astrom Oyvind Hamre Espen Lie Dahl 

作者机构：Terrestrial Ecology DepartmentNorwegian Institute for Nature Research(NINA)TrondheimNorway SteinoysundSmolaNorway. 

出 版 物：《Avian Research》 (鸟类学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第8卷第4期

页      面：192-201页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 08[工学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：executed as part of the Innovative Mitigation Tools for Avian Conflicts with wind Turbines(INTACT)project financed by a consortium consisting of the Research Council of Norway(Grant 226241) Vattenfall,Statkraft,Statoil,Energy Norway,Tronder Energi Kraft,Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate and NINA 

主　　题：Avian radar Displacement Habituation Mitigation Seabirds Ultraviolet Wind turbine 

摘      要：Background: Concerns for bird collisions with wind turbines affect the deployment of onshore and offshore windpower *** avoid delays in consenting processes and to streamline the construction and operation phase,functional mitigation measures are required which efficiently reduces bird *** is the primary sensory system in birds,which for a number of species also includes the ultraviolet *** bird species that are known to collide with offshore wind turbines are sensitive in the violet or ultraviolet *** species that are mainly active at lower ambient light levels,lighting may deter birds from the lit ***(ultra)violet lights may in addition not disturb ***,we do not know whether UV-sensitive birds in flight actually respond behaviourally to UV ***: We therefore tested the efficacy of two types of lights within the violet(400 nm) and ultraviolet(365 nm) spectrum to deter birds from the lit *** lights were placed vertically and monitored continuously between dusk and dawn using an avian radar ***: Relative to control nights,bird flight activity(abundance) was 27% lower when the ultraviolet light was *** light resulted in a 12% decrease in overall abundance,and in addition,a vertical displacement was seen,increasing the average flight altitude by 7 *** temporal changes occurred,this effect persisted over the season below 40 m above sea ***: Although the results from this pilot study are promising,we argue there still is a long way to go before a potentially functional design to mitigate collisions that has proven to be effective in situ may be in place.