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Migratory Bird Deaths Commercial Wind Turbines Today
Cape Wind Migratory Bird Study - Today The US Fish and Wildlife Service completed its "biological opinion" in 2008. Today in 2014 massive land based industrial wind turbines cover Cape Cod, Islands and South East Massachusetts. The effect of the land based turbines combined with the ocean wind turbines has never been taken into account. Roseate terns and all migratory birds will be surrounded by land and ocean wind turbines never taken into account in 2008. As part of the mitigation, Cape Wind paid $780,000 toward restoration of Bird Island off Marion. Bird Island is the chief nesting area of the Roseate Terns in North America. The bird population of Bird Island is the total amount of birds expected to suffer from the effects of the ocean wind turbines. Roseate terns and all migratory birds will be surrounded by land and ocean wind turbines today never taken into account in 2008. Let’s look at Bird Island off the coast of Marion in the center of Buzzards Bay and what towns around the bay have massive commercial wind turbines installed since 2008.
Looking from Bird Island to the East the Town of Falmouth 3 massive megawatt commercial wind turbines; to the North the next town over, Wareham, has the Mass Maritime Academy with 1 already installed; to the West the Towns of Fairhaven has 2 massive industrial wind turbines. The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Otis Air Force Base several large megawatt turbines and finally to the south of Bird Island Rhode Island is proposing a wind farm near Block Island.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service needs to look at the massive areas of commercial wind turbines today between Rhode Island & Massachusetts.
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Today Bird Island, the largest nesting area of Rosate Terns in North America in Buzzards Bay, is surrounded by commercial wind turbines.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service needs to take a realistic view of the opinion and how with the additional information provided here does or does not provides greater safety of the Endangered Species and the migratory path of the birds up and down the East Coast
