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the turbines and that the structures could disturb other species.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/environmentNews\/idUSTRE4900A120081001?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=environmentNews&amp;sp=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a finding that may make it easier to build more wind farms, British scientists have discovered that wind turbines do not drive out bird populations from surrounding areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-27442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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