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Management Of Rodent Populations At Airports, Gary W. Witmer, Jessica Dewey Oct 2002

Management Of Rodent Populations At Airports, Gary W. Witmer, Jessica Dewey

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Birds pose serious hazards at U.S. airports. Raptors are hazardous to aircraft safety due to their size, hunting behavior, and hovering/soaring habits. Abundant food sources, open space, and availability of perches at or near airports contribute to ideal hunting opportunities for many raptors. The ability to directly manage raptor populations is limited by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Reduction of small mammal populations at an airport may decrease raptor populations in the area and therefore, reduce the risk that raptors pose to aircraft. Rodents can be managed by population management or by habitat management. Reduction of small rodent populations can …

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Conducting An Economical Wildlife Hazard Assessment Using A Wildlife Incursion Log (Poster), Elizabeth Rogers, David Tiller Oct 2002

Conducting An Economical Wildlife Hazard Assessment Using A Wildlife Incursion Log (Poster), Elizabeth Rogers, David Tiller

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Small and moderate-sized airports face increasing financial constraints. A need for a wildlife hazard assessment can represent a real financial hardship. We describe how a wildlife incursion log maintained by airport personnel can provide an economical means of assessing wildlife hazards in a rural landscape. Using such a log with records for 208 days, we created a relational database that could be analyzed with simple summary statistics. Using the incursion log, we examined seasonal shifts in average daily incursions (such as increased sandhill cranes in the spring), persistent year- round presence of some species (such as American crow), and the …

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Compliance With Wildlife Hazard Regulations: An Air Carrier’S Perspective, Vern Berry Oct 2002

Compliance With Wildlife Hazard Regulations: An Air Carrier’S Perspective, Vern Berry

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

As a safety professional at Evergreen International Airlines, I have first-hand experience of the damage caused by wildlife. Seven major bird strikes have cost Evergreen approximately $20 million in damages and lost revenue over a 5-year period. These events often occurred during critical phases of flight. For example, one Evergreen B-747 suffered severe damage to engine and pylon structure with subsequent loss of control during climb. You cannot train for every possible aircraft failure induced by bird strikes. The time will come, with or without the collection of additional bird-strike statistics, when damage from a bird strike will exceed the …

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Mandatory Strike Reporting: The Time Has Come, Paul Eschenfelder Oct 2002

Mandatory Strike Reporting: The Time Has Come, Paul Eschenfelder

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The reporting of wildlife collisions with aircraft in almost all places, worldwide, is voluntary. As a result data with which to design, manufacture and operate aircraft to mitigate this hazard is poor. Voluntary reporting of strikes has resulted in data collection rates in the USA of around 20%, and only about 9% of the reported strikes contain complete data on bird species. Aviation manufacturers also agree that collection of strike data is difficult, incomplete and without an industry best practice. Air carriers, when research is done, are amazed to find that strike rates may be eight times higher than their …

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Development And Maintenance Of Airport Wildlife Hazard Mitigation Website For The Faa And Its Use As A Communication Tool, Archie M. Dickey, Allen R. Newman Oct 2002

Development And Maintenance Of Airport Wildlife Hazard Mitigation Website For The Faa And Its Use As A Communication Tool, Archie M. Dickey, Allen R. Newman

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center has contracted with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott to develop and maintain a website dealing with a variety of issues and concerns related to wildlife and aviation. Our goal is to increase the transfer of information among biologists and the aviation community regarding the nature of wildlife hazards to aircraft and methods for reducing these hazards. The site has an on-line wildlife strike report form (FAA Form 5200-7) which also enables users submitting strike reports to access information on wildlife management, bird identification, FAA guidelines, and strike statistics. A query system has …

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Influence Of The Bash Phase Ii Program On Reduction Of Birdstrikes To Air Mobility Command Aircraft, Brian D. Oswalt Oct 2002

Influence Of The Bash Phase Ii Program On Reduction Of Birdstrikes To Air Mobility Command Aircraft, Brian D. Oswalt

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The purpose of the proposed study was to examine the reduction of birdstrikes to aircraft during the Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) Phase II flight restriction periods and their affect on Air Mobility Command (AMC) and the U.S. Air Force (USAF). This study sampled the entire population of AMC airfields with BASH Phase II flight restrictions. The test period consisted of damaging birdstrike data collected 5 years before BASH Phase II operations began (1991-1995), and the years during BASH Phase II (1996-2000). It was hypothesized that since the implementation of BASH Phase II flight restrictions, there had been no significant …

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Bird Hazard Control Program At Panama Airports, Esteban Godinez Oct 2002

Bird Hazard Control Program At Panama Airports, Esteban Godinez

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

ICAO Bird Information System (IBIS) has been conduced at Panama airports since 1996. Bird strike notifications, technical reports as well as wildlife control procedures have been developing as essential roles of the National Bird Hazard Committee and its Wildlife Limitation Programs. Sixty-four (64) bird strikes with different aircraft were recorded and sent to ICAO so far, while an additional 154 collisions (71%) were not reported to ICAO because of the failure to determine the aircraft involved. Among the birds struck at airports, the most outstanding species are the common barn owl (Tyto alba) and the black vulture (Coragyps …

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The Brazilian Civil Aviation Department (Dac) And Bird Strike Control In Brazil, Jandrisson Gurgel Do Amaral Jr. Oct 2002

The Brazilian Civil Aviation Department (Dac) And Bird Strike Control In Brazil, Jandrisson Gurgel Do Amaral Jr.

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The subject addressed in this paper is the participation of Brazilian Civil Aviation Department (DAC), and more specifically the Air Accident Investigation and Prevention Division (DIPAA) in the efforts regarding civil aircraft bird strike control in Brazil. In order to successfully achieve this intent, this paper will briefly introduce the recordings of civil aircraft bird collision registered in Brazilian Civil Aviation Department, reported by the civil aviation community (airliners, air operators, airport staff, general aviation personnel, ATC, etc.). In addition, the paper will outline the dimension of the bird strike hazard encountered by the civil fleet operating in Brazilian skies …

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Efficacy Of Aircraft Landing Lights In Stimulating Avoidance Behavior In Birds, Bradley F. Blackwell, Glen E. Bernhardt Oct 2002

Efficacy Of Aircraft Landing Lights In Stimulating Avoidance Behavior In Birds, Bradley F. Blackwell, Glen E. Bernhardt

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

A potential non-lethal technique to reduce bird-aircraft collisions, aircraft-mounted light, has been considered for nearly 3 decades, but has received no formal research as to its efficacy. We tested the hypothesis that during daylight hours birds exposed to an approaching vehicle exhibiting pulsing landing lights would react more quickly than birds experiencing an on-coming vehicle with non-pulsing (steady) or no lights (control). We used the PulseliteTM system (Precise Flight, Inc., Bend, Oregon, USA), an early recognition lighting system that allows an aircraft pilot to pulse the landing, taxi, or forward-facing recognition lights, and 2 General Electric sealed-beam 250-W aircraft …

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Effects Of Location And Phase Of Flight On The Behavioral Responses Of Birds To Aircraft: Preliminary Observations, T. C. Kelly, M. J. A. O'Callaghan, P. D. Bourke, L. Buurma, R. Bolger Oct 2002

Effects Of Location And Phase Of Flight On The Behavioral Responses Of Birds To Aircraft: Preliminary Observations, T. C. Kelly, M. J. A. O'Callaghan, P. D. Bourke, L. Buurma, R. Bolger

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Based on an earlier classification of avoidance movements shown by birds to moving aircraft (Kelly et al. 2001), we have studied the evading maneuvers of the rook (Corvus frugilegus) in relation to the phase of flight of air traffic at Dublin Airport, Ireland. The percentage of individuals which did not show avoidance movements was almost identical for approach/landing and take-off /climb-out movements. However, the nature of the avoiding-response in relation to the phase of flight was different. Thus 78% of responses were “Simple” in the approach/landing flight phase whereas only 5% were in this category during take-off. On …

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Translocating Common Nighthawks At Mcconnell Air Force Base, Kansas To Reduce Aircraft Strikes, John L. Cummings, Patricia A. Pochop, James E. Davis, Darryl L. York Oct 2002

Translocating Common Nighthawks At Mcconnell Air Force Base, Kansas To Reduce Aircraft Strikes, John L. Cummings, Patricia A. Pochop, James E. Davis, Darryl L. York

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

McConnell Air Force Base (MAFB) experiences a unique bird/aircraft hazard problem with migrating common nighthawks (Chordeiles minor) from August-October. Nighthawks are the most commonly struck species at MAFB, representing about 38% of total reported bird/aircraft strikes and 82% of the strikes from August-October. Factors that contribute to an over abundance of nighthawks on MAFB are: abundant foraging opportunities in close proximity to the airfield, available roosting habitat for nighthawks on and around the airfield, the lack of a Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard program to address nighthawks, and the location of MAFB on a nighthawk migration route. Approaches for …

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Efficacy Of Translocation Of Red-Tailed Hawks From Airports, Laurence M. Schafer, John L. Cummings, John A. Yunger, Kirk E. Gustad Oct 2002

Efficacy Of Translocation Of Red-Tailed Hawks From Airports, Laurence M. Schafer, John L. Cummings, John A. Yunger, Kirk E. Gustad

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Raptor translocation from airport environments is a management strategy that has been recommended and used in attempts to reduce aircraft strikes. However, supportive data are lacking about optimal translocation distance and direction, return rate, post-translocation fate and overall efficacy of the technique. We conducted a study from 1 December 1999 to 28 February 2002, which included satellite telemetry, to address these issues of raptor translocation at a Midwest Airport. Two hundred and fourteen red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) were translocated to 12 sites in Illinois, between 59 and 242 km from the airport. Thirty-four after-hatch-year (AHY) individuals were fitted …

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A Small Pond Off-Airfield Provides More Than Water, Nigel Horton Oct 2002

A Small Pond Off-Airfield Provides More Than Water, Nigel Horton

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Land use changes around aerodromes are becoming more problematical as conservation groups increasingly press for eco-friendly restorations, especially of water areas. Often the requirement is to encourage insects or plants or recreational use of such areas. However, these same beneficial features for biodiversity, can enhance the already considerable off-airfield bird attraction. A single case study illustrates the slow, generally unnoticed, development of a small water feature as an attraction to increasing numbers of birds and species over a period of about 10 years. This and a second study reveal how a "must feed the birds" mentality influences local bird populations. …

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Environmental Analysis Of Wildlife Hazard Management Programs: Application Of Nepa And Possible Consequences For Implementing New Plans (Poster), Ken Wallace Oct 2002

Environmental Analysis Of Wildlife Hazard Management Programs: Application Of Nepa And Possible Consequences For Implementing New Plans (Poster), Ken Wallace

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The operating certificate required for airports that accommodate commercial-service air carriers stipulates that the airports be able to conduct safe operations, pursuant to the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Under Federal Aviation Regulation Part 139, most airports must prepare and implement a wildlife hazard management plan (WHMP) as part of the certification process. Required components of the WHMP include the priorities for needed habitat modification and changes in land use as a result of those modifications. Because habitat modification is often a relatively permanent procedure to reduce wildlife use of airports, it is a preferred method by airport operators for …

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Animal Ambush At The Airport: The Extent And Nature Of Non-Bird Wildlife Strikes With Civil Aircraft, Usa, 1990-2001 (Poster), Sandra E. Wright, Richard A. Dolbeer Oct 2002

Animal Ambush At The Airport: The Extent And Nature Of Non-Bird Wildlife Strikes With Civil Aircraft, Usa, 1990-2001 (Poster), Sandra E. Wright, Richard A. Dolbeer

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Birds have long been recognized as a serious threat to aviation safety. However, other wildlife (mammals and reptiles) can also have a serious impact on aircraft. From 1990-2001, 1,029 strikes to civil aircraft involving wildlife other than birds were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Deer (522) and coyotes (115) were the most commonly struck wildlife. Other non-bird species struck included rabbits, woodchucks, turtles, alligators, and iguanas. Whereas 14% of bird strikes resulted in aircraft damage and 9% had a negative effect on the flight, 47% of strikes with other wildlife caused damage and 33% had a negative effect …

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Identification Of Batstrikes (Poster), Suzanne C. Peurach Oct 2002

Identification Of Batstrikes (Poster), Suzanne C. Peurach

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Identification of fragmentary evidence such as hairs, bones, and claws that have been recovered from United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft has been undertaken by the Biological Survey Unit (USGS) for the last 5 years. The results of these investigations may be useful in preventing future damaging batstrikes. Examination of batstrikes may also provide valuable information to the scientific research community about patterns in bat migration, flight altitudes, and times of flight. Positive identifications are made by comparing unknown samples with the collection of museum specimens housed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Macroscopic characters such as …

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Successful Use Of Alarm/Alert Call Playback To End Canada Goose Problems At An Ohio Business Park (Poster), Philip C. Whitford Oct 2002

Successful Use Of Alarm/Alert Call Playback To End Canada Goose Problems At An Ohio Business Park (Poster), Philip C. Whitford

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Burgeoning continental resident Canada goose populations have led to increases in aircraft strikes. Once on or near airfields, geese have proven difficult to move and keep away. Playback of naturally recorded alarm and alert calls of the species was coupled with multiple harassment techniques to determine if this strategy would prove effective at removal of long-term resident geese from a 24-ha business park in Dayton, Ohio. The study began 26 February 2002, following territorial establishment by the geese, and continued until the last few geese had abandoned the property as of 14 May 2002. Most geese present were reusing nest …

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R.I.T. News & Events - October 24, 2002, University News Services, Rochester Institute Of Technology Oct 2002

R.I.T. News & Events - October 24, 2002, University News Services, Rochester Institute Of Technology

University Publications

RITs CBET gets $4 million gift; total funding reaches $8 million; Annual Staff Recognition Awards honor top team and individuals; RPO performs in Ingle Auditorium Nov.8; Log on to support financial aid programs; Brick City Festival and Reunion 2002; RIT honors outstanding alumni with distinguished awards; Women, work are topics of symposium; Public policy speaker; American-studies expert: Curtis Myth of America; Sweet Honey shares soulful harmonies,Nov.2; Congressional funding on the rise for CIMS program;

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Development Of Birdstrike Risk Assessment Procedures, Their Use On Airports, And The Potential Benefits To The Aviation Industry, J. R. Allan, A. Orosz, A. Badham, J. Bell Oct 2002

Development Of Birdstrike Risk Assessment Procedures, Their Use On Airports, And The Potential Benefits To The Aviation Industry, J. R. Allan, A. Orosz, A. Badham, J. Bell

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Over the past 2 years, CSL has been involved in the development of formal risk assessment procedures for the birdstrike hazard to aircraft. These risk assessments have now been carried out at all BAA airports in the UK, and the impact of this process on the bird management at the different airports can begin to be assessed. The risk assessment process itself has also been refined over the same period, and calculations made to determine how the various target levels for birdstrike frequency, particularly those which, if not met, require further bird management to be undertaken, relate to absolute levels …

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Improving The United States Bird Avoidance Model (Usbam) Predictive Risk Surface, Mark Alexander, Matt Bobo, Russell P. Defusco Oct 2002

Improving The United States Bird Avoidance Model (Usbam) Predictive Risk Surface, Mark Alexander, Matt Bobo, Russell P. Defusco

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The United States Bird Avoidance Model (USBAM) uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to analyze and correlate bird habitat, migration, and breeding characteristics, combined with key environmental and man-made geospatial features. The Application consists of raster grids covering the conterminous USA. The value for each grid pixel location is equivalent to the sum of the mean bird mass (in ounces), for all species present during a particular daily time period, for one of 26 2-week periods in a year. The original USBAM is a desktop application that has an intuitive design and includes separate interfaces for multiple user profiles such …

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Implementation Of Gis Technology To Detect Wildlife Hazards At Airports, Michelle L. Gray Oct 2002

Implementation Of Gis Technology To Detect Wildlife Hazards At Airports, Michelle L. Gray

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for displaying spatial data is a well established technique widely used by many professions, especially natural resources. Environmental and engineering departments at many civil and military airports also use GIS to aid in planning new construction and future development. These same techniques can be applied at airports to create maps that visually portray the occurrence and location of wildlife hazardous to aircraft. At Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, USDA Wildlife Services uses this technology to analyze and display wildlife activity on grid maps. Wildlife observations are maintained in a database …

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Reported Bird Strikes At Down-State Illinois Airports, Michael W. Rapps Oct 2002

Reported Bird Strikes At Down-State Illinois Airports, Michael W. Rapps

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Land-use restrictions in the vicinity of airports are increasingly employed as a means to reduce bird strikes on aircraft. Yet, in the absence of controlled studies, the link between land usage and bird strikes is largely anecdotal. In seeking a connection between bird strikes and land use, the records of reported bird strikes from the years 1990-2001 were examined for 28 airports in down-state Illinois. For each airport it was noted whether land use within 6 miles of the airports included large bodies of water or wetlands, wildlife sanctuaries, golf courses, landfills, shopping venues with food concessions, or croplands. Because …

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Bird Detection And Radar Wind Profilers, Scott Mclaughlin Oct 2002

Bird Detection And Radar Wind Profilers, Scott Mclaughlin

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Radar wind profilers (RWPs) are a very sensitive class of operational and research-grade meteorological radars designed specifically to detect clear air turbulence in the atmosphere. These systems have been designed with frequencies ranging from 50 MHz to 3 GHz and antenna sizes from about 1 m to >1 ha. Unlike NEXRAD systems, the antennas do not move or scan but rather are stationary and use phase-shifter arrangements to point the beam. Using the Doppler-shifted backscatter return, winds profiles can be measured from near the ground to as high as 20 km in 5- to 60-minute intervals. RWPs have been used …

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Development Of A Portable Bird Detection Radar For Airports, Michael Hovan, William J. Hughes Oct 2002

Development Of A Portable Bird Detection Radar For Airports, Michael Hovan, William J. Hughes

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The development of a prototype portable bird detection radar for airports and airfields will be presented. This prototype radar is currently being developed under a partnership between the U.S. Air Force and the FAA, and is being funded under the U.S. Air Force Dual Use Science and Technology (DUST) program. Overview of the program will be given, and detailed specifications of the radar unit, and planned tests at a commercial airport will be presented. Future Plans for an integration of this type of radar into a real-time airport bird strike advisory system will be presented as well.

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Need For Certification Program For Persons Conducting Wildlife Hazard Management Activities At Airports, John Ostrom Oct 2002

Need For Certification Program For Persons Conducting Wildlife Hazard Management Activities At Airports, John Ostrom

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

With the complexity of tools, information and resources available to airports today, there comes a need for standardization for those persons involved in Airport Wildlife Hazard Management. One approach to standardization would be the creation of a multi-level certification program to provide the basic necessary information, training and resources to anyone involved in Airport Wildlife Hazard Management. In order to create and manage this program, the basic structure of Bird Strike Committee USA (BSC USA) would need to evolve into a more formal organization. This reorganization would create the foundation for BSC USA to provide the necessary management structure and …

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Increasing Air Safety At Eglin Air Force Base Through Vulture Roost Dispersal, John S. Humphrey Oct 2002

Increasing Air Safety At Eglin Air Force Base Through Vulture Roost Dispersal, John S. Humphrey

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Forested wetlands provide attractive roost sites for black vultures (Coragyps atratus) and turkey vultures (Cathartes aura). Vultures entering and departing roosts, however, can create hazardous conditions for pilots arriving and departing nearby airports because vultures often use the same air column as aircraft. This was the case for Eglin Air Force Base and co-located Okaloosa Regional Airport in Niceville, Florida where 260 vultures roosted in nearby Turkey Creek Nature Trail. We evaluated the effectiveness of suspending a taxidermic vulture effigy in the roost, augmented by periodic use of a handheld laser management options to alleviate these …

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A New Technology To Repel Birds: The High-Intensity Acoustic Bird Dispersion System (Hiabds), Xi Baoshu, Zhou Mingjun, Wang Jingqun, Richard A. Dolbeer, Thomas W. Seamans Oct 2002

A New Technology To Repel Birds: The High-Intensity Acoustic Bird Dispersion System (Hiabds), Xi Baoshu, Zhou Mingjun, Wang Jingqun, Richard A. Dolbeer, Thomas W. Seamans

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

A High-intensity Acoustic Bird Dispersion System (HIABDS), invented by Professor Xi Baoshu, is a new nonlethal device for dispersing birds from airports and other locations. The device employs a unique electro-pneumatic loudspeaker which can amplify recorded wildlife vocalizations or artificial sounds of varying frequencies to high power levels and project them over long distances. The sound pressure reaches 135 dB at 10-m distance. In China, HIABDS is being used at Lanzhou Airport to disperse upland buzzards (Buteo hemilasius), whose numbers declined by 80% after 1 year of deployment. During 2001-2002, HIABDS was used at Tianjin Binhai International Airport …

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Emergency Wildlife Management Response To Protect Evidence Associated With The Terrorist Attack On The World Trade Center, New York City, Richard B. Chipman, Kenneth J. Preusser, Justin T. Gansowski, Carl P. Cranker Iii, Daniel P. Sullivan, Richard A. Dolbeer, Thomas W. Seamans, Laura C. Francoeur Oct 2002

Emergency Wildlife Management Response To Protect Evidence Associated With The Terrorist Attack On The World Trade Center, New York City, Richard B. Chipman, Kenneth J. Preusser, Justin T. Gansowski, Carl P. Cranker Iii, Daniel P. Sullivan, Richard A. Dolbeer, Thomas W. Seamans, Laura C. Francoeur

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

Human-wildlife conflicts arise under a variety of circumstances and working environments. No one could have predicted the unique working environment created by events surrounding 11 September 2001. At the request of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, a team of USDA, APHIS, Wildlife Services (WS) biologists mobilized in less than 24 hours to assist officials from the NYPD, PANYNJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in managing birds and rodents impacting the recovery of evidence as a result of the …

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Wildlife Hazard Management In Micronesia: Aviation Safety In Uncharted Territory, Daniel S. Vice Oct 2002

Wildlife Hazard Management In Micronesia: Aviation Safety In Uncharted Territory, Daniel S. Vice

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The islands of Micronesia support small, but growing, commercial and military aviation routes. A developing tourism industry, coupled with increased demands for military training sites, is bringing aviation traffic to remote and occasionally primitive island settings. While flight volumes are low relative to mainland settings, the nature of aviation in the islands is that of self- sufficiency and minimal infrastructure, which creates difficult flight situations. Pilots flying island routes face numerous challenges, including wildlife hazards that are generally unmitigated. Although major infrastructure and safety improvements have been made across many of the civilian airports in Micronesia, the impact of wildlife …

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Bird Strikes In Courts: The Genoa Case, Valter Battistoni Oct 2002

Bird Strikes In Courts: The Genoa Case, Valter Battistoni

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

There have not been many court cases, be it criminal or civil, concerning accidents, or even compensation for damages, following bird strikes. Generally, those involved prefer to reach an agreement out of court. The first court sentence in Italy on this subject was pronounced by the Civil Court of Genoa in 2001. The carrier had sued a number of entities (Ministry of Transport, Airport Operator, Air Traffic Control Agency) for damages resulting from a multiple impact between a BAE 146 and a flock of gulls (Larus sp.) that occurred on 7 June 1989 at Genoa Airport. On that occasion …

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