Canada’s move to ban incandescent light bulbs has had an unexpected effect upon a wild bird rescue centre in Ottawa, the nation’s capital..
Incandescent bulbs give off substantial warmth as well as light and the centre has always used them to warm incubators where a regulator controls the on-off cycle maintaining warmth at the desired level.
Canada began phasing out 75 and 100 watt bulbs on January 1st with lower wattage bulbs to be phased out at the end of the year.
Replacements such as compact fluorescent (CFL) or light emitting diode (LED) alternatives do not provide the amount of gentle warmth necessary.
A request by the Ottawa Wild Bird Care Centre for donations of 100 watt bulbs before they disappear from store shelves has had huge success.
Donors dropped off hundreds of the needed 100 watt bulbs this week. Centre staff now say they have enough bulbs to last about 15 years.
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