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Posts Tagged → Light pollution

Light pollution has lengthened birds’ days by nearly an hour

posted in Birds on August 25, 2025 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

From NPR:

“For these birds, effectively their day is almost an hour longer. They start vocalizing about 20 minutes earlier in the morning and they stop vocalizing about 30 minutes later in the evening,” says Neil Gilbert, a wildlife ecologist with Oklahoma State University.

Moving in. Watch your head. And look out for the birds.

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I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant one is my renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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