Summary of Potential Impacts to Long‐Tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) • The Nantucket Sound provides overwintering habitat for as much as 1/3 of the world’s population of Long‐Tailed Ducks (White et al, 2009) • Parts of the population fly from the Nantucket Sound toward the Nantucket Shoals daily to feed. • Tens (even hundreds) of thousands of ducks can make this commute each morning and evening. • ESS Group, Inc. (2006) performed 12 days of ground surveys documenting that the birds generally fly either over Tuckernuck Island or through the Madaket Harbor. See below:
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