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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.

  • Birds lost weight.

  • They could strike just about any part of the aircraft.

  • It could be the engines.

  • It could be.

  • 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.

  • Toe birds like geese.

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

  • It's like a firecracker going off.

  • It's really good.

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

  • It's enough to scare the geese away.

  • Just give them a little sting.

  • Doesn't doesn't injure them at all.

  • This is our laser with birds.

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

  • This is not a bird paradise at all.

  • You like our non lethal tools.

  • We can't get results from that.

  • 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.

My name is Laura Froth, chief wildlife biologist for the port authorities.

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