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Migrating birds drawn by light face higher chemical exposure

“We examined the correlation between the concentration of airborne toxic chemicals, artificial light at night, and the weekly abundance of 165 nocturnally migrating songbird species,” said Frank La Sorte, a research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and lead author of “Light Pollution Enhances Ground-Level Exposure to Airborne Toxic Chemicals for Nocturnally Migrating Passerines."