NFCers, In the course of trying to win a competitive research contract sometimes one offers an in-kind (pro bono) study to sweeten the proposal. That's the case with the acoustic study at a NY wind energy project reported at the link below. The data was gathered ~5 years ago but the report was delayed in publication due to complications with other associated research projects I wasn't involved with.
This acoustic study was initially just going to involve data from a single monitoring station, but various bumps along the road led me to include data from other avian acoustic monitoring stations I had running in the region. This turned out to facilitate discussion on a number of interesting questions regarding the application of avian acoustic monitoring at industrial wind energy projects. The report is currently listed first on the following webpage. I welcome any feedback or discussion: http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Publications/Research-and-Development-Technical-Reports/Environmental-Reports.aspx The 20,000+ calls collected from the study will eventually be put online at oldbird.org, but I need to go through them again to update species classifications. Bill E -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
