Birds and aircraft: fighting for airspace in crowded skies

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" Birds and aircraft: fighting for airspace in crowded skies "
Dolbeer, Richard A.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	943263
Doc. No	:	LA66p2d57j
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Dolbeer, Richard A.
Title & Author	:	Birds and aircraft: fighting for airspace in crowded skies [Article]\ Dolbeer, Richard A.
Title of Periodical	:	Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
Volume/ Issue Number	:	19
Date	:	2000
Abstract	:	Birds and other wildlife such as deer (Odocoileus spp.) pose increasing economic and safety concerns to aviation interests in the USA. Civil aircraft collisions with wildlife (wildlife strikes) annually reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) increased from about 1,700 in 1990 to 4,500 in 1999. Waterfowl (Anatidae), gulls (Larus spp.), raptors (Accipitridae, Pandionidae, Cathartidae, Falconidae) and deer were involved in 80% of the reported strikes in which aircraft were damaged. Wildlife strikes caused annual losses of