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By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:20:06 +0000

You’d be surprised how accurate the FAA’s record on bird strikes are.

It is true that most pilots will not report minor strikes, but any dead bird or animal found on an airport runway/taxiway is considered a strike and logged as such by the airport, which in turn gets reported to the FAA.

I find dead birds including bats, starlings, doves, etc every SINGLE day and on our airport’s runways and none of which have been reported to ATC.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:54:10 +0000

I think that birds are just p-o’d that planes can fly faster and higher than them, and they are retaliating!

By: Stephen Dutton

Stephen Dutton — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:02:24 +0000

Could the increase in strikes (or more snarge) be because of the yearly increase in Air Travel over the last decade, be good to do a excellent comparison on both, 2009 would be really interesting as the numbers of flights are a lot lower..another point is if we keep snarging these poor animals when will there numbers drop like the fish in the sea.

By: CF

CF — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:16:42 +0000

And FYI, Ellie Fields is the person from Tableau.

Nicholas Barnard wrote:

I’ll be fiddling with this data some more, but the number I want is the number of strikes per 1000 cycles, comparing that between turbo props an jets. It’d also be nice to tease out only commercial operations as well.

Agreed. The data is there for everyone to see. It’s the FAA list here:
http://wildlife-mitigation.tc.faa.gov/public_html/index.html

So if you feel like digging into the weeds, have at it!

By: Nicholas Barnard

Nicholas Barnard — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:16:23 +0000

I’ll be fiddling with this data some more, but the number I want is the number of strikes per 1000 cycles, comparing that between turbo props an jets. It’d also be nice to tease out only commercial operations as well.

By: Ellie Fields

Ellie Fields — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:05:43 +0000

The data does in fact go up to about March 2009. You can use the slider to go all the way out. The default view doesn’t include 2009 though, because with partial data for the year it makes it look like snarge fell dramatically.

By the way, very interesting to read comments from pilots who’ve hit birds. Adds some color to the data.