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BIRD STRIKE
COMMITTEE Understanding
and reducing bird and other wildlife hazards to aircraft |
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2008 meeting, Orlando,
Florida, 18-21 August and call for papers 2007
Meeting, Kingston, Ontario 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 AND WHERE DOES BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE The organization meets annually
in conjunction with Bird Strike Committee ·
The 2004
meeting , with 434 attendees, was in ·
The 2005
meeting was in ·
The 2006 meeting, with 390 attendees, was 21-24
August in ·
The 2007
meeting was 10-13 September in ·
The 2008 meeting will be 18-21 August in WHAT HAPPENS AT A BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE There typically are four parts to a Bird Strike
Committee WHAT SUBJECT AREAS ARE COVERED DURING THE PAPERS AND REPORTS PORTION OF THE MEETING? · bird and other wildlife strike reporting/statistics ARE THERE ANY BIRD STRIKE COMMITTEE 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. 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
· Over 219 people have been killed world-wide as a result of bird strikes since 1988. ·
Bird and other wildlife strikes cost · Over 5,000 bird strikes were reported by the U.S. Air Force in 2006. ·
Over 7,500 bird and other wildlife strikes
were reported for ·
An estimated 80% of bird strikes to civil
aircraft in · 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 (26%), and raptors (17%) represented 74% of the reported bird strikes
causing damage to ·
Over 740 civil aircraft collisions with deer
were reported in the · A 12-lb Canada goose struck by a150-mph aircraft at lift-off generates the force of a 1,000-lb weight dropped from a height of 10 feet. ·
In 1890, 60 European starlings were released
in · The North American non-migratory Canada goose population increased 3.6 fold from 1 million birds in 1990 to over 3.5 million in 2006. · The nesting population of American bald eagles in the contiguous USA increased from fewer than 400 pairs in 1970 (2 years before DDT and similar chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides were banned) to over 9,000 pairs in 2007. · The North American population of greater snow geese increased from about 50,000 birds in 1966 to over 1,000,000 birds in 2006. ·
The · The North American white and brown pelican populations grew at average annual rates of 3.7% and 2.1%, respectively, 1966-2006. ·
At least 15,000 gulls were counted nesting on
roofs in ·
About 90% of all bird strikes in the Meeting Information
For further information contact: Richard Dolbeer, Chair, BSC-USA |