Tag Archives: bird strike
fence collisions and sage grouse
The following is the beginning of a piece by Cat Urbigkit that showed up on Stephen Bodio’s Querencia blog yesterday: Making headlines across the West of late is a two-page preliminary report issued by a Wyoming Game and Fish Department … Continue reading
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short film of falconry at JFK
Thanks to George Billard for sending me the url of his terrific short film — Birdman of JFK — which shows falconer Ron Rollins of Falcon Environmental Services flying his birds at the airport in an attempt to prevent bird … Continue reading
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why birds collide with airplanes
In this Boston Globe article Dr. S. Allen Counter – a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, a neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of the Harvard Foundation — writes about research he did with gulls at Logan Airport … Continue reading
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bird strike piece in Birder’s World in April 2009 issue
Coincidentally, Birder’s World is running a piece about the Feather Lab in DC — the same lab that analyzed the feathers of the birds that brought down USAirways Flight 1549 into the Hudson River. The editor says the piece was … Continue reading
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