This fact sheet presents potential impacts to birds before, during, and after construction, specifically collision with the turbines and other above-water structures and displacement from the area caused by avoiding the turbines and any associated construction and maintenance traffic.
The document highlights how US Wind is working to avoid, minimize, and mitigate any potential risks to birds in the Lease area, specifically aerial and digital surveys, NanoTag antennas and acoustic sensors, minimize lighting, anti-perching measures, sited and timed cable landfalls and onshore facilities, buried cabled, and the compilation and maintenance of a comprehensive wildlife survey and observation information database.
