Bird-room lighting??

[MarciaLove]

Ok so I have another thread in which I am turning my garage into a place to keep my birds. I know how I'm going to heat it now I need to know how to light it. It has a door thats half glass and four small windows but the windows are small and up high so not enough light gets in. I was thinking about hanging a vitamin light made for lizards above each cage what do you think??

 

[weco]

Since my reply to your other post Turning garage into bird-room HELP is essentially the same reply I would make to this one, I'm just cutting & pasting it here:



Marcia, before you go spending a bunch of $$$, you might want to read this link and at the bottom of the page there is a continuation arrow to the next page:

Introduction | Full-Spectrum Light Sources | Lighting Answers | NLPIP



After the RPI data, if you are still interested, there is a UK site that has been doing research on UV light relevant to reptiles, but the data is usable for parrots.....the site & project is spearheaded by a retired UK veterinarian.....

UV Guide UK - Ultraviolet Light for Reptiles - UVB reptile lighting on test


As to your question of which lights to use, standard 4 foot 4 lamp fixtures would probably be the best for your setup.