Airports, technology and birds
Last week Twan showed me this link which contains a New York Times Op-Ed. “Those Hazardous Flying Birds” discusses airplanes and bird strikes while citing Federal Aviation Administration statistics which say more than 9,000 birds are hit by airplanes each year and in the last 23 years about one plane each day is forced to land because of such impacts. Apparently since the “Miracle on the Hudson” when US Airways Flight 1549 was steered to safety on the river after a Canada Geese strike by Captain “Sully” the federal government has slaughtered about 25,000...
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Elyse was conducting vegetation and avian surveys at the Jamestown Airport to better understand the habitat requirements and conditions of the endangered Henslow’s Sparrow and special concern Grasshopper Sparrow, both of which were recorded as nesting there this summer.
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