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I have white nightlights for my birds at night, but find the white lights too bright for the room. Can I use blue or red bulbs in the nightlights?

Using a blue CFL bulb here with no problems.

A red light might not give off enough light, I have a tarantula, and you use a red light at night for them because they give off extra heat

I have low wattage white (which are almost too dim!) mini christmas lights and I also have orange mini (halloween lights) in another part of the birdroom, which are perfect.

Yes, I heard the oranhe christmas lights are great

All I've ever seen regarding night lights is that finches don't see as well in the dark as humans. But how much of a difference is it? I mean, in order to know how much night light they need? I've been leaving a light on in another room to spill over into my living room where I keep my birds. But I'd rather have less light on if possible, so I like the idea of colored christmas type bulbs. But how many?

Linda, one strand of white lights around the cages is plenty

Oh, wasn't expecting them to need that much night light. Makes me think the light coming from the other room isn't enough for them.

Well that is as small I can think of uhm, my uncle use night lights, I use those battery candles, one on each cage, but I want to switch to the light strings, you can probaly get a small one

I use LED Xmas tree lights. Primarily to save on electricity, and secondly for durability. The LED lights won't burn out like incandescent bulbs do.

I use a string of BLUE LED Xmas tree lights. I thought blue would mimic night better than red. Also red and orange makes me think of a fire, so I would rather not use red or orange. The colors that I know are available are: white/clear, blue, red, orange (Halloween lights).

Brand new LED Xmas tree lights will seem too bright. They lit up the corner of the room. That is why I selected blue than white. As bright as the blue was, I figured the white would be even brighter. But the lights got dim (see #2 below)

I have mine on a timer to go on 15 min before lights OUT and stays on 15 min after lights ON.

If you use xmas tree lights, get a couple of spare sets.
The reasons for the spares are:
#1 if the lights die on you, you can't get a replacement till next xmas, or Halloween if you use orange. I had one string where half the lights just went out. I could not figure out why.
#2 the LED lights that I use (from Target) have gotten quite dim after a couple years of use, and have to be replaced. The lights have to be bright enough that the birds can find their way back to the perches. If it gets too dim, all they will see is the lights, not the perches. I don't know what caused the lights to go dim, as it should not happen to LED. If I replace that string, I will do exploratory surgery on the lights and try to figure it out.

So I bought this night light bulb for birds. It's really just a led bulb. I don't see why you can't use any led bulb. It is blue. I think moonlight is considered kind of blue.