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Field Testing An "Acoustic Lighthouse": Combined Acoustic And Visual Cues Provide A Multimodal Solution That Reduces Avian Collision Risk With Tall Human-Made Structures, Timothy James Boycott, J. P. Swaddle, Sally Mullis, Brandon E. Jackson
Field Testing An "Acoustic Lighthouse": Combined Acoustic And Visual Cues Provide A Multimodal Solution That Reduces Avian Collision Risk With Tall Human-Made Structures, Timothy James Boycott, J. P. Swaddle, Sally Mullis, Brandon E. Jackson
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Billions of birds fatally collide with human-made structures each year. These mortalities have consequences for population viability and conservation of endangered species. This source of human-wildlife conflict also places constraints on various industries. Furthermore, with continued increases in urbanization, the incidence of collisions continues to increase. Efforts to reduce collisions have largely focused on making structures more visible to birds through visual stimuli but have shown limited success. We investigated the efficacy of a multimodal combination of acoustic signals with visual cues to reduce avian collisions with tall structures in open airspace. Previous work has demonstrated that a combination of …