Attraction of petrels to artificial lights in the Canary Islands: effects of the moon phase and age class.

The extent and intensity of artificial night lighting has increased with urban development worldwide. The resulting light pollution is responsible for mortality among many Procellariiformes species which show nocturnal activity on their breeding grounds. Here, we report light‐induced mortality of Procellariiformes during a 9‐year study (1998–2006) on Tenerife, the largest island of the Canary archipelago. A total of 9880 birds from nine species were found grounded, the majority being Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris diomedea (93.4%). For this species the majority of grounded birds were fledglings (96.4%), which fall apparently while leaving their nesting colony for the first time; for the smaller species (storm‐petrels) adult birds were more often grounded than fledglings. For almost all species, grounding showed a seasonal pattern linked with their breeding cycle. Certain phases of the moon influenced grounding of …

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Rodríguez A. y Rodríguez B. Attraction of petrels to artificial lights in the Canary Islands: effects of the moon phase and age class. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00925.x

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