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Originally Posted by Logansdad
| The U.S. Bird Strike Committee reported that increasing fowl populations, such as Canadian geese, pelicans, starlings, and blackbirds, will increase the number of birstrikes, causing an estimated $149 million in damage between 1999 and 2008.
A proposed Memorandum of Understanding on Aircraft-Wildlife Collisions developed by the Federal Aviation Administration, USAF, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services Division, seeks to alleviate this problem.
Frank Bokulich
Aerospace Engineering March 2000 |
Thin out the flocks of Canadian geese, pelicans, starlings, and blackbirds, or just order them to stay out of designated airspaces?
