How Do Airports Keep Birds From Striking Planes? A Wildlife Expert Explains | WSJ Booked

Bird strikes are one of the biggest wildlife hazards to aircraft at JFK Airport. The chief wildlife biologist for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey explains how airports minimize these collisions on the runway. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee
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[@michelbruns]

i could have told you without 20 years of experience that birds are the animals that strike plains the most, and not dogs, sharks or even elephants

[@BroAnarchy]

Man, i was going to say... Sharks would be way up there for me. Especially those Sharknados.

[@KGisthename]

​@@BroAnarchy Naive sharks?

[@connorawalsh]

I mean she did a thorough explanation from start to finish. I learned a lot!

[@danh6720]

It’s a somewhat silly statistic if it’s not presented along with the fact that numbers of strikes are important but have to be weighed against consequences. For example, deer are rarely struck, but it’s a much bigger problem when they are. Basically a small part of the instruction that doesn’t make sense without the rest.

[@BroAnarchy]

Man getting _paid_ to *_drive around_* honking at birds to leave an airport sounds like my dream job! 🤩🤩🤩

[@leo_nidas]

These are great details! Thanks for the report. Very informative.

[@megha6691]

Wsj .. thy always come up something more informative. Totally love watching these videos.

[@ReynaSingh]

4:03 poor possum

[@heidichu9863]

Wow such a cool topic - I knew nothing about this! Amazing work :)

[@sly273]

what a informative video, good job wsj.

[@Alorio-Gori]

Thank you for all these Hard Work 💪

[@scotterickson3730]

But birds aren’t real

[@regolith1350]

“Birds are the wildlife group most frequently struck by aircraft” Well obviously. Birds fly. Planes fly. They’re gonna collide. There isn’t gonna be an epidemic of planes hitting deer or dolphins, is there? Who writes this stuff? This is like saying “food is most commonly eaten during meals”.

[@delia_watercolors]

If you start thinking like this, you will notice it in every piece of newsmedia and otherwise, available on television, Internet and radio. It is unavoidable.

[@BroAnarchy]

Lol 🤷‍♂️

[@danh6720]

There is an epidemic of planes hitting deer in some locations. It’s not as frequent, but hitting deer is a bigger problem per collision.

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video.

[@RobsonFilho]

How to mitigate it, *clock kok*

[@kevinjenner9502]

In Japan they fire blank cartridges, set off fireworks and a whole host of similar actions.

[@manifold1476]

Q: How Do Airports Keep Birds From Striking Planes? A: They Don't.

[@MeowfaceMusic]

How about amplifying particular frequencies to deter birds from hanging around?

[@stebolavirus]

Engine ingestion...haha...aka bird stew...aka Snarge?!

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Really? Birds are the animals most likely to strike an airplane? I would've thought dolphins. Duh.

[@tonysteve5855]

waht does mean to have a turbo engine jet aircraft

[@bbt305]

They just mean a jet engine versus a propeller.

[@TobiasDuncan]

"Aircrafts"

[@jamescallaway7376]

Very rarely do birds strike aircraft, they don't intentionally fly into aircraft! Its the aircraft that tends to strike the birds as they can't out pace or out manoeuvre aircraft due to the speed. Some species such as birds of prey have been known however to attack slow flying light aircraft, microlights hang gliders when they enter their territory to defend it.

[@auro1986]

how?cutting trees to make airports and runways and birds don't have place to nest

[@oquendo0021]

Omg like that one video where the plane is landing and it runs over a deer and gets stuck on the tire

[@fredricknolan3905]

Remember Shellyburg at JFK.

[@tonysteve5855]

i have a question

[@danielm8950]

I beeped at a bird once too. It was in the road.

[@Aeronaut1975]

There's no such word as "aircrafts", it's a singular plural like rice or pasta. You can have one or a hundred aircraft, but not a hundred aircrafts.

[@karlriina6950]

more proof. #birdsarentreal

[@grahamkingston1679]

It’s crazy how many birds get killed by airplanes

[@aarononeal9830]

The Wallstreet journal needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress.

[@krishnasingh2520]

"Sully" fans put your attendance here ✈️✈️🕊️🕊️

[@kristofferthordarson1040]

So you’re telling me that Spirit has a lot of wildlife strikes?

[@pedrolplgm]

IN SPAIN. ONLY REPORTS. ROBER SR. GOOD. THANKS. THE END.

[@daveselbow9128]

sending 'snarge' samples to a lab for identification? what a waste of money...

[@danh6720]

Except identifying the bird type helps direct prevention measures and reduces the chance a given aircraft is going to have a costly collision.

[@Royalfaction]

Those birds are innocent and just trying to find thier way lol. While playing by the rules of course

[@juliez9673]

Okay yeah the birds are cool, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF BS W/ THE PORT AUTHORITY AIRPORTS

[@Nill757]

How bout some foxes

[@dennisthomas8755]

1st view

[@United_Wings]

they shoot them😯

[@speedplays6710]

Skeet shooting practice

[@danh6720]

Sometimes, but it’s not the most effective or best way to prevent strikes.

[@speedplays6710]

@@danh6720 dump plastic into the water supply

[@luisito6314]

Learned nothing here

[@AGTsakumis]

These types of stories by WSJ are a welcome departure from the usual govt screw-up etc. One question: After a bird strike, why keep the carcasses? Who cares? Just toss them and move on. Seems there's too much to this process.

[@TheVermilliaFamily]

I believe they are kept to be identified, so they can understand which birds are more likely to be hit. It's especially important if they are endangered species.

[@AGTsakumis]

@@TheVermilliaFamily Great point. I didn't even consider that. Thank you for that information. Be well.

[@danh6720]

It’s a little odd that they’re keeping that many samples for so long. I do this as part of my job, and if the bird is obviously identifiable, I submit the report and dispose of the remains. If I need to send a sample to the Smithsonian for ID, it’s sent the same or next day. So I don’t quite know why they are storing that many. I suspect it’s a procedure specific to Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia.

[@SolracNexus]

Meanwhile in the middle east: "How do airports keep planes from striking buildings?"

[@teamtryxgg281]

The US has the world's most dilapidated airports and China has the world's most futuristic and modern airports: The Beijing Daxing international airport, Qingdao international airport, Chengdu international airport .. to name just a few.

[@Nill757]

Get rid of EPA. Presto. New airports, quickly, cheaply. Use state enviro laws

[@johnl.7754]

But that means China airport fees are much more expensive then US airport fees even though average income is much lower. I lived there and wondered why it cost more to fly from China.

[@PacoOtis]

This false observation is so very common. "THEY" are not in our habitat! "WE" are in theirs! This is very similar to our complaining about the wolves in "our" habitat of Yellowstone! This is completely wrong! What a pitiful species we are! Best of luck to all of us!

[@mrepix8287]

No, humans are at the top and we have the right to do as we please. There are plenty of natural areas for birds to fly to, airports are very small in the grand scheme of things

[@teamtryxgg281]

If Americans and Europeans watch videos of modern airports and thousands of skyscrapers in China, I'm sure they'll get jealous of China to the point of feeling suicidal. I watch tons of drone videos of cities in China every day. A small city in China is bigger and more modern than New York city, America's biggest city.

[@thaveenrubenthiran2190]

really put in the perspective of how many people are suffering in Shanghai.....thank you for your insight

[@teamtryxgg281]

@@thaveenrubenthiran2190 I agree with you. What's happening in Shanghai is temporary (or transitory as Jerome Powell insisted).

[@paulrosario8572]

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