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Why choose this product?
Providing Adequate Cage Lighting For Pet Birds
There are many benefits to providing proper UV lighting to pet birds. By simulating natural sunlight with an Avian Light, for birds that are housed indoors, you are providing environmental enrichment and helping your bird to see his indoor world as it would in nature.
Very often, during the daylight hours, pet birds do not get proper or adequate lighting which can significantly affect their behavior and overall health. Reproduction & hormones, feather vibrancy & structure, sleep cycles & moods are all influenced by light cycles and photoperiods. Proper cage lighting is an essential element that should be considered when setting up your pet bird’s cage.
Birds have tetrachromatic vision, which means that their retinas contain four types of high-intensity light receptors with varying spectra absorption. This enables them to distinguish colours more effectively and see wavelengths and gradations of colour beyond those of typical human vision. Birds also have better visual acuity and can perceive subtle differences between similar colour shades. Humans cannot see what birds can see.
Exposure to natural sunlight is ideal. However, it involves taking your bird outside and this is not always convenient or an option. Simply placing your bird by a window will not work since light filtered through glass loses the necessary wavelengths. The next best thing is to bring the outdoors in! You can do this by setting up cage lighting that emits simulated natural sunlight conditions, including ultraviolet rays.
