Name: How Do Airports Keep Birds From Striking Planes? A Wildlife Expert Explains | WSJ
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for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

- And it's made a nest in the light pole up there.

There's a lot of water resources around us

and that's very attractive to bird populations,

- [Narrator] And if these animals find their way

onto the runway, it could create a problem

and what steps are taken after a collision

- A strike occurs when there's been wildlife

that's found on the ground in the runway environment.

- [Narrator] On average, 47 strikes are reported daily,

are gonna occur during departure or arrival.

so they're more likely to strike wildlife.

- [Narrator] Francoeur says most strikes don't result

- It could be the light on the landing gear is broken.

and they have to replace an entire engine.

which is sort of in the nose of an aircraft

and there's a lot of very expensive avionics components

- [Narrator] Repairing these types of damages isn't cheap.

In 2020, for example, the cost of wildlife strikes

and at least 75,000 hours of aircraft downtime.

can cause a ripple across the whole air traffic system

So that's our goal is to try and keep everything moving

- [Narrator] Airports are on especially high alert

- It's not just the movement of the birds,

which you get in the spring migration also

but the fact that now you're getting naive birds

- Everything's looking for food, cover and water.

and cover and water that's available in the airport.

that you can use for managing wildlife on an airport.

- [Narrator] One example of habitat management,

there's a lot of birds that like open areas

so that they can see the predators around them.

And then if you have the grass height too tall

rabbits and other kind of medium-sized mammals

And that potentially can attract larger raptors, hawks.

- [Narrator] This is an anti-perching device,

- And you can see that it has a pointy cap on that.

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