Planes four times as likely to hit birds during migrations

By Pat Leonard |. August 19, 2021
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A China Eastern Airbus A330 encounters a flock of birds at London’s Heathrow Airport.

(news.cornell.edu August 19, 2021) The risk of airplanes colliding with birds jumps by as much as 400% during periods of migration, according to new research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and partners, who have been looking for patterns in bird-strike data from three New York City-area airports. Read Full Article here

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