Ohio study with hobby planes looks at bird strikes HURON, Ohio — Researchers want to fly remote-controlled airplanes near Lake Erie to determine whether lighting systems could scare away birds and cut down the number of mid-air collisions with flying fowl. Wildlife biologists hope the study will... 

Operators of wind turbines are already under pressure to improve the structures’ quake-resistance strength. Now, they face another problem with nature: endangered birds flying into the turbines’ blades. The bird strike problem has become so serious that measures to protect the fowl are slowing... 

The flight paths of migrating birds could play a key role in the siting of giant turbines on a Northland wind farm. Meridian Energy wants to build a wind farm in the Rototuna Forest, on Northland’s west coast, using turbines more than 100m tall. Meridian has been assessing the Rototuna Forest... 

The Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian Institution has discovered DNA. Well … we’re going to be using it in our BASH efforts anyway! The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is joining the U.S. Air Force’s feather identification program at the Smithsonian Institution... 

There has been a sharp rise over recent years in the number of bird strikes on aircraft, and this trend is proving very costly to airlines and a serious threat to passenger safety. Research undertaken at Lihue Airport on Kauai, Hawaii, indicated that 91% of strikes involved a single bird, and that...