Name: Are Birds A Real Threat To Planes?
Uploaded: 2020-11-05T18:47:20.000Z
Duration: 1 min 51 s
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My name is Laura Froth, chief wildlife biologist for the port authorities.

Wildlife programs that way, with birds of the major concern it hit.

They could strike just about any part of the aircraft.

The windshield just don't know where they might hit Bergen's entering the movement area.

One of our first line of defense is habitat management.

You want to reduce all the areas where birds would hang out.

We try and manage the grass height and also the species of grass.

And we spend a lot of money and research looking at different types of grass that have fungus in them.

That makes the grass not taste very good.

When habitat management is not enough, we'll use different things like pyrotechnics.

Thio scare the birds, and then we also have paintball.

Sea is the whole beam of light coming out so they see a big green stick.

Then we occasionally well, um, use lethal means.

It's not something you want to do is a biologist.

But you understand the ultimate goal is safety Theo mechanics.

They're doing a quick walk around in the aircraft.

They might find a small spot of blood or a small piece of feather way actually send it to the Smithsonian Institution.

And they have a feather labs, and they can narrow it down the species.

 Better information we have about what species are being struck, the better our programs could be. 