Evaluating the effects of moonlight on the vertical flight profiles of three western palaearctic swifts
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2023
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Royal Soc
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Recent studies have suggested the presence of moonlight mediated behaviour in avian aerial insectivores, such as swifts. Here, we use the combined analysis of state-of-the-art activity logger data across three swift species, the common, pallid and alpine swifts, to quantify flight height and activity in responses to moonlight-driven crepuscular and nocturnal light conditions. Our results show a significant response in flight heights to moonlight illuminance for common and pallid swifts, i.e. when moon illuminance increased flight height also increased, while a moonlight-driven response is absent in alpine swifts. We show a weak relationship between night-time illuminance-driven responses and twilight ascending behaviour, suggesting a decoupling of both crepuscular and night-time behaviour. We suggest that swifts optimize their flight behaviour to adapt to favourable night-time light conditions, driven by light-responsive and size-dependent vertical insect stratification and weather conditions.
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migration, resource and habitat use, foraging, flight altitude, night-time schedule, light pollution
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Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
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Q1
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Q1
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290
Sayı
2010
