City-dwellers should switch off their garden lights at night, scientists have urged — as light pollution interrupts the sleeping patterns of magpies and pigeons. However, the team found that both forms of light affect the sleep patterns of magpies and pigeons — with amber light as disruptive as white for pigeons. City-dwellers should switch off their garden lights at night, scientists have urged — as light pollution interrupts the sleeping patterns of magpies and pigeons. Furthermore, while amber light proved less disruptive than white light for the sleeping magpies, pigeons were seen to be equally affected by both. 'We found that magpies lost more NREM sleep under white light than amber light.

Source: Daily Mail July 23, 2020 15:02 UTC