The City Life of Birds

City life can be hard for birds to cope with. A new study found that the light and sound of urban areas has “a profound effect on the internal clocks” of birds, waking up earlier and resting later than their forest counterpart. Their pattern of activity/rest was also a lot more scattered. This makes having large green space such as Kowloon Park as biodiversity refuges the more important in a 24-hour city like Hong Kong. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/06/city-living-changes-biological-clocks-birds-study-shows/5813/