Click here to see Program details!	6th Joint Annual Meeting Bird Strike Committee USA/Canada September 13-17, 2004 Baltimore, Maryland
	Theme: Practical Wildlife Control Techniques for Airports
Background	Every year, over 1 billion dollars is wasted and lives are endangered worldwide when birds and other wildlife collide with aircraft. To meet this ongoing challenge, the Bird Strike Committees of USA and Canada organized the 6th annual joint meeting, hosted by the Maryland Aviation Administration and Baltimore/Washington International Airport on 13-16 September 2004 (with a post-conference Open House at the Smithsonian Feather Identification Lab in Washington D.C. on 17 September). The meeting was highly successful, with 434 attendees from 23 countries!
Who attended?	Attendees included military and civilian personnel responsible for airfield operations, wildlife and wetland resource managers, land-use planners, FAA airport inspectors, university researchers, engineers, pilots, aviation industry representatives, waste management operators, engine manufacturers—a broad spectrum of people interested in minimizing conflicts between birds and aviation and reducing wildlife strike hazards!
Papers and presentations	We had an outstanding array of 36 technical papers and 21 poster presentations. Click here to see the Technical Program.
Keynote address	The Bird Strike Committees of USA and Canada were honored to have former NTSB member John Goglia make the Keynote Address at our 2004 meeting. Click here to read about John Goglia.
Exhibitors	The conference provided an outstanding opportunity for companies and organizations to display products and services related to wildlife hazards to aviation. Some exhibitors provided field demonstrations during the field trip (click here to see list of exhibitors).
“Early Bird” Pyro Training (Mon, 13 Sep)	The ‘Early-Bird” (Monday afternoon) classroom and field training in the safe and effective use of pyrotechnics was very successful at the 2002 meeting in Sacramento. This course was held again with some new wrinkles. About 120 people attended.
Field trip to BWI (Wed, 15 Sep)	The Maryland Aviation Administration and USDA Wildlife Services arranged for an informative field trip to BWI on Wednesday afternoon. Highlights included storm water management to minimize bird attraction, bird exclusion techniques, exhibitor demonstrations, and interviews with newspaper and TV reporters.
Post-conference Open House at Smithsonian Feather Lab (Fri, 17 Sep)	Dr. Carla Dove and her staff hosted an Open House at the Feather Identification Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Dr. Dove and staff discussed the art and science of identifying bird strikes to species by feather remains. .
Agenda at a glance. Click here for detailed Program	13 Sep (Mon): Early-bird military/civil field training (1300-1730) Welcome Social (1800-2000) 14 Sep (Tue): Welcome Breakfast (0700-0750) Technical Sessions (0800-1700) 15 Sep (Wed): Technical sessions with FAA Airport Certification Inspectors (0800-1200) Field trip and demonstrations at BWI (1330-1700) Meet-the-Vendors Social (1800-1930) 16 Sep (Thu): Military/civil breakout session (0700-0815) Technical Sessions and Close-out (0820-1700) 17 Sep (Fri): Post-conference Open House, Smithsonian Feather ID Lab (0900-1200)