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BIRD STRIKE
COMMITTEE Understanding
and reducing bird and other wildlife hazards to aircraft |
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2012 meeting,
Memphis, TN, 13-16 August; call for papers FAA-USDA
report “Wildlife Strikes to Civil Aircraft in USA, 1990-2009” Papers from 2008 meeting
published in Human-Wildlife Conflicts Bruce
MacKinnon Memorial Scholarship Fund 2008 Draft
Strategic Plan, comments solicited PDF files of
Technical Program, 2006 meeting Abstracts from meetings,
1999-2007 Best Management Practices
for airports |
WHY IS THERE
A BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE Bird and other wildlife strikes
to aircraft annually cause well over $600 million in damage to Bird Strike Committee WHEN The organization meets annually
in conjunction with Bird Strike Committee ·
The 2006 meeting was 21-24 August in ·
The 2007
meeting was 10-13 September in ·
The 2008 meeting
was 18-21 August in ·
The 2009
meeting was 14-17 September in ·
The 2010 meeting
was 21-24 June in ·
The 2011
meeting was 12-15 September in
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The 2012 meeting
will be 13-16 August in WHAT HAPPENS AT A BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE There typically are four parts to a Bird Strike
Committee WHAT SUBJECT AREAS · wildlife strike reporting/statistics in relation to safety management
systems Attendees of the annual meetings receive abstracts of the technical papers presented and a list of all attendees and addresses. Click here to locate abstracts from past meetings. PDF files of many of the presentations at the 2006 meeting are available by clicking here. Technical presentations from the 2008 meeting have been published in the science journal, Human-Wildlife Conflicts (Third issue of 2009 Volume). WHO ATTENDS BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE Participation in the annual meetings is open to any person interested in reducing wildlife hazards to aviation and in wildlife and environmental management at airports. As examples, people from the following organizations have attended recent meetings: · Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association DID YOU KNOW THAT? · Over 219 people have been killed world-wide as a result of bird strikes since 1988. · Bird and other wildlife strikes cost USA civil aviation over $650 million/year, 1990-2010. · About 5,000 bird strikes were reported by the U.S. Air Force in 2010. ·
Over 9,600 bird and other wildlife strikes
were reported for · From 1990-2004, USA airlines reported 31 incidents in which pilots had to dump fuel to lighten load during a precautionary or emergency landing after striking birds on takeoff or climb. An average of 11,600 gallons of jet fuel was released in each of these dumps. ·
Waterfowl (31%), gulls (25%), raptors (18%),
and pigeons/doves (7%) represented 81% of the reported bird strikes causing
damage to ·
Over 990 civil aircraft collisions with deer
and 340 collisions with coyotes were reported in the ·
In 1890, about 60 European starlings were
released in ·
The North American non-migratory Canada goose
population increased about 4 fold from 1 million birds in 1990 to over 3.5
million in 2010. About 1,300 · A 12-lb Canada goose struck by a150-mph aircraft at lift-off generates the kinetic energy of a 1,000-lb weight dropped from a height of 10 feet. · The North American population of greater snow geese increased from about 50,000 birds in 1966 to over 1,000,000 birds in 2009. ·
The nesting population of bald eagles in the
contiguous ·
The · The North American white pelican populations increased 6-fold from 1966-2009. ·
At least 15,000 gulls were counted nesting on
roofs in ·
About 90% of all bird strikes in the ·
From 1990-2010, 431 different species of birds
and 36 species of terrestrial mammals were involved in strikes with civil
aircraft in Meeting Information
For further information contact: John Ostrom, Chair, |