"Acoustic lighthouses" which broadcast sound to birds may reduce avian collisions with manmade structures.
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Article Title: Field testing an "acoustic lighthouse": Combined acoustic and visual cues provide a multimodal solution that reduces avian collision risk with tall human-made structures
Funding: This work was supported by the Center for Innovative Technology's Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund award MF18-029-En ( https://www.cit.org/ ) to JPS, by the Animal Welfare Institute ( https://awionline.org/ ), the Virginia Society of Ornithology ( https://www.virginiabirds.org/ ), the Williamsburg Bird Club ( http://williamsburgbirdclub.org/ ), and the Department of Arts and Sciences at William & Mary to TJB. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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