The 66-year-old man was struck by pellets in the face, chest and arm Saturday when his hunting partner fired on a bird that had been flushed from woods near the Starks town office.

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STARKS — An Industry man was in stable condition at a Bangor hospital after he was mistakenly shot by a friend while the pair were bird hunting last weekend in Starks, according to the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

The two were hunting Saturday in a field behind the town office in Starks when their dog went on-point toward nearby woods, Mark Latti, a spokesman for Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said in an email late Wednesday. David Dorr, 66, was walking ahead of his friend, a woman in her 60s from Rhode Island, when she moved into the woods to flush…