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Members of the Planning Board plan to visit towers at Hopkins Memorial Forest in Williamstown and at Jug End State Reservation in Egremont before making a final determination on the

The towers receiving station would track morse code-like radio transmission from tagged birds, bats and insects in flight.

The source of it? >> theyre actually debating right now, martha. very important question youre asking. they dont know whether it is developing a host in mammals right now but they found it in pigeons. they looked for it in pigs. they havent found it in pigs. theyre tracking birds. as you said they killed all the birds in the area to prevent spread. back in 2005 the last bird flu we were worried about h5n1, that bird flu killed a lot of birds. this one seems to be harboring itself in birds. were ...