Supplement to the Phase I Avian Risk Assessment and Breeding Bird Study for the Deerfield Wind Project, Bennington County, Vermont

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Title: Supplement to the Phase I Avian Risk Assessment and Breeding Bird Study for the Deerfield Wind Project, Bennington County, Vermont

Author:

Kerlinger, P.

Publication Date:

January 13, 2006

Pages:

Affiliation

Curry & Kerlinger LLC

Technology:

Wind Energy, Land-Based Wind

Receptor:

Passerines, Birds

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Kerlinger, P. (2006). Supplement to the Phase I Avian Risk Assessment and Breeding Bird Study for the Deerfield Wind Project, Bennington County, Vermont. Report by Curry & Kerlinger LLC.

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Abstract

This document is a supplement to the Phase I Avian Risk Assessment (Kerlinger 2003, revised 2005) and the Breeding Bird Survey (Kerlinger and Dowdell 2003) reports for the Deerfield Wind Project, formerly referred to as the Searsburg/Readsboro Expansion project. The original reports were completed in 2003, and this supplement is a means of bringing those two reports up to date. For the Phase I Avian Risk Assessment, this supplement includes:

Updates regarding empirical studies of avian-related impacts at existing wind power sites in the United States and Canada;
Updated information about whether night migrants follow ridges in the northeastern United States
Information on whether FAA L-864 flashing red lights used at existing wind turbines attract or disorient night migrants, resulting in collisions; and
Recent references regarding wind power impacts to birds.

For the Breeding Bird Survey, this supplement inlcudes reference to a study of Bicknell's nesting at the Deerfield project site by U.S. Forest Service biologists.