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I would presume there is much more detailed data than presented by Korte. Different birds eat different things. Understand what is changing leads to possibilities for mitigation.

Again, the fleet is not crashing out of the air. But 7 times more birds must have real maintenance costs.

 

Some may not be aware of

Climate Reanalyzer

Which allows one to create maps of several parameters, in chosen areas, at chosen times. Actually there are very many options.

For example, one could make temperature-anomaly maps for December from 1979 through 2017.

If anyone finds a particularly interesting example there, please start a dedicated thread.

 

If forgiven for stretching 'environment' to cover human internals, and 'news' to 2003

Consider getting a copy of

"Understanding the Immune System How it Works" from US Natl Inst Health.

57 not-so-painful pages later, you will. In times of anti-vaxxers and immune-boosting supplements. it is not a bad thing to understand.

 

Another bisco enigma. It is a pain in the aspic to deter airport birds ?

 

All those things are done. More common, big noisemakers. Less common, trained birds of prey. Actually I think poisoning is going out because cannot control who eats it, and some of those airplane killers are endangered species.

What trollbait asked, and I don't know, is if bird control is being less extensively waged.

 

Complicating the picture is that global bird strikes 1999 to 2008 showed no clear trend

Bird Population Trends and Impact on Aviation Safety - SKYbrary Aviation Safety

While US cited article showed steady increase then.

 

Smart dog to patrol airport area? Or sheep to deny bird access to food?

 

On a training flight in Idaho I declined to land at a remote airfield. Ground fog after about the middle. Told instructor I could not confirm absence of deer. May have become one of his 'stories'.

 

Some owls 'work' during daytime. Otherwise it would not seem effective.

Replica owls in service tend to get their replica heads spattered with (real) bird droppings, suggesting a degree of contempt.

Following repeat mention of gulls, I'll agree that they are leading troublemakers, at airports and many other settings.

 

Once I watched a poor little butterfly fluttering around engine during run up. When the expected thing happened, it was far off to the side. Those engines really suck (meant in a mostly good way).