Recreational noise pollution of traditional festivals reduces the juvenile productivity of an avian urban bioindicator

Bernat-Ponce, Edgar; Gil‐Delgado, José A.; Iborra, Germán M. López

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117247

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“…The ecological effects from firework noise can be long term and influence breeding success: in Valencia, Spain, several festivals that include fireworks occur between April and May, and breeding success of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), as measured by ratio of adults to juveniles, was lower in towns hosting festivals than in control towns without festivals. Notably, cancellations of the festivals in 2020 due to COVID-19 resulted in the breeding success of sparrows in both groups of towns becoming equal (Bernat-Ponce et al 2021).…”

Section: Noise and Lightmentioning

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Not just a flash in the pan: short and long term impacts of fireworks on the environment

Bateman

Gilson

Bradshaw

2023

Pacific Conserv. Biol.

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Fireworks are used globally, mostly for recreational purposes, despite overwhelming evidence that they negatively affect wildlife, domestic animals, and the environment. Fireworks cause short-term noise and light disturbance, causing distress in domestic animals that may be managed before or after a fireworks event, but impacts to wildlife can be on a much larger scale. The annual timing of some large-scale fireworks events coincides with migratory or reproductive behaviour of wildlife, and thus may have adverse long-term population effects on them. Fireworks residues also contribute significantly to chemical pollution of soil, water, and air, which has implication for human as well as animal health. Modern technological alternatives to traditional fireworksboth 'eco-friendly' fireworks, and reusable drone and laser-based lightshowsprovide safer, 'greener' alternatives that also present a sustainable way forward for maintaining cultural traditions without perpetuating their adverse impacts.

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Section: Noise and Lightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Not just a flash in the pan: short and long term impacts of fireworks on the environment

Bateman

Gilson

Bradshaw

2023

Pacific Conserv. Biol.

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“…Urbanization involves fast landscape transformation (United Nations, 2018). This usually has negative effects on local biota by exposure to new stressors, such as new pollutants, food, disturbances, anthropogenic noise, predators, among others (Bernat‐Ponce, Gil‐Delgado, et al, 2022; Bernat‐Ponce et al, 2021; Cid et al, 2018; Fernández‐Juricic & Tellería, 2000; Francis & Barber, 2013; Herrera‐Dueñas et al, 2017; Townsend et al, 2019; Woods et al, 2003). Consequently, cities are challenging environments for wildlife (Isaksson, 2018; Murgui & Hedblom, 2017), but some birds species (native and/or invaders), known as urban exploiters, have adapted to urban life and take advantage of cities (Eraud et al, 2007; Evans et al, 2011; Lepczyk & Warren, 2012; Oliveira Hagen et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Eating in the city: Experimental effect of anthropogenic food resources on the body condition, nutritional status, and oxidative stress of an urban bioindicator passerine

et al. 2023

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Urban areas provide a constant and predictable supply of anthropogenic processed food. The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus Linnaeus, 1758), a declining urban bioindicator species, has recently been reported to have a high level of oxidative stress, with urban diet or pollutants proposed as the potential cause. In this study, we aimed to experimentally determine the effects of two urban trophic resource types (bar snack food leftovers and pet food) on sparrows' physical condition, plasma biochemical nutritional parameters, and blood oxidative status in captivity. To exclude the potential previous effect of urban pollutants, 75 House Sparrows were captured from a rural area in SE Spain and kept in outdoor aviaries. Individuals were exposed to one of three diet treatments: control diet (fruit, vegetables, poultry grain mixture), bar snack diet (ultra‐processed snacks), or cat food diet (dry pellets) for 20 days. Blood samples were collected before and after diet treatments to analyze the relative change rates of 12 variables, including physical condition, nutritional status, and oxidant–antioxidant status. A principal component analysis was run to identify gradients of variables covariation, and Generalized Linear Mixed Models were used to determine the effect of diets on each selected PC and on raw variables. The bar snack diet led to signs of anemia and malnutrition, and females tended to lose body condition. The cat food diet increased oxidative stress indicators and protein catabolism. Unbalanced urban diets can affect the body condition and nutritional physiology of House Sparrows and may also induce oxidative stress despite the absence of environmental pollution.

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“…In the UK, during the COVID-19 lockdown, which coincided with the UK bird migration and breeding season (April-July), birds experienced many unusual ecological conditions resulting from drastic changes in human behaviour. During lockdowns, human activities in homes and backyard gardens increased, with decreased vehicular travel to other locations, such as retail and grocery locations, which may have consequently decreased vehicular traffic animal mortality [19][20][21][22], pollution and noise disturbance [28,33,34], and roadkill carrion resources [19][20][21][22]. Also, when humans stayed at home more, species dependent on gardens may have faced increases in human disturbance, while perhaps benefitting from increased food provisioning during lockdown [35], when humans were more attentive to their home environments including bird feeders.…”

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Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom

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Human activities may impact animal habitat and resource use, potentially influencing contemporary evolution in animals. In the United Kingdom, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions resulted in sudden, drastic alterations to human activity. We hypothesized that short-term daily and long-term seasonal changes in human mobility might result in changes in bird habitat use, depending on the mobility type (home, parks and grocery) and extent of change. Using Google human mobility data and 872 850 bird observations, we determined that during lockdown, human mobility changes resulted in altered habitat use in 80% (20/25) of our focal bird species. When humans spent more time at home, over half of affected species had lower counts, perhaps resulting from the disturbance of birds in garden habitats. Bird counts of some species (e.g. rooks and gulls) increased over the short term as humans spent more time at parks, possibly due to human-sourced food resources (e.g. picnic refuse), while counts of other species (e.g. tits and sparrows) decreased. All affected species increased counts when humans spent less time at grocery services. Avian species rapidly adjusted to the novel environmental conditions and demonstrated behavioural plasticity, but with diverse responses, reflecting the different interactions and pressures caused by human activity.

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Recreational noise pollution of traditional festivals reduces the juvenile productivity of an avian urban bioindicator

Cited by 17 publications

References 78 publications

Not just a flash in the pan: short and long term impacts of fireworks on the environment

Not just a flash in the pan: short and long term impacts of fireworks on the environment

Eating in the city: Experimental effect of anthropogenic food resources on the body condition, nutritional status, and oxidative stress of an urban bioindicator passerine

Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom

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