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The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society is questioning the methods used by Invenergy LLC to conduct bird surveys at the proposed Moresville wind-farm site in Roxbury and Stamford.
[...]"Moresville has taken some serious shortcuts in their avian studies," Andy Mason, DOAS conservation chairman, said in a media release. "They carried out radar studies of nocturnal bird migration, but the radar location was 21/2 miles away and 1,000 feet lower than the ridge where the wind turbines would be located."
David Groberg, Moresville Energy vice president, said the company respects DOAS' commitment to bird conservation but said it did not take shortcuts with the avian studies.
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