January 16, 2009 The number of collisions between birds and aircraft has rapidly increased over the last two decades, despite better technology to combat them. The US Airways plane that improbably wound up floating in the Hudson River has drawn attention to bird strikes, but a U.S. Department of... 

May 2006 There are eight to ten birdstrikes each year at Eielson, which is very low compared to other bases. Most of the strikes occur in the traffic pattern and involve small birds such as mews, gulls and cliff swallows. Geese have only accounted for a small percentage of bird strikes. The low number... 

September 2007 Birds colliding into planes, referred to as ‘bired strikes’, cost the aviation industry up to $3 billion every year. Even worse, they have contributed to a number of fatal plane crashes: 24 people were killed in Alaska in a bird strike crash in 1995, and at least 68 people... 

Jan. 23, 2009 As an ongoing investigation continues on a bird strike that caused a passenger jet’s engines to fail last week after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, Air Force safety officials said they’re well-versed on the dangers of bird strikes and aggressively are working to prevent... 

March 26, 2008 Avian hazard: Lights on antennas and cell towers, such as these on a California ridge, can lure migratory birds, resulting in fatalities. Experts are studying the role of colors and flash rates. As many as 50 million birds are killed annually in US cell-tower... 

The Context for Bird Strike Reporting Whilst Bird Strike Reporting is a reactive response to the potential hazard, there is no alternative widely-available means of monitoring potentially hazardous bird activity and this has been recognised by Regulatory action to improve the extent of reporting. However,...