Bird-hit fears loom over city airport
AHMEDABAD: With the onset of monsoon, birds have been returning to the city airport in large numbers, increasing the risk of bird-hits. In second half of June, Airports Authority of India (AAI)...
View ArticleJanuary 8, 2014 - Before Deep Freeze, Snowy Owl Captured at BWI Marshall...
(Source: BWI - Baltimore Washington International Airport) Airport Works With USDA Wildlife Services Personnel to Minimize Threats from Snowy Owls, Other Birds On Friday, December 27, a Snowy Owl was...
View ArticleDouble bird hit delay’s international flight by 18 hours
COIMBATORE: The city's international airport witnessed its first major bird hit in the last six months. A double bird hit on the Air Arabia flight that landed in the city early Monday morning, led to...
View ArticleChennai colleges set aside time for wildlife
Little did Vivek Puliyeri know that he would be able to build a prospective career and also cater to his interest in conserving nature and wildlife when he walked into the campus of Indian Institute of...
View ArticleSnowy owl at Reagan National Airport may have taken off
WASHINGTON • A snowy owl that spent the holidays at Reagan National Airport may have moved on with the new year. After a night of reveling and nearby fireworks displays, airport officials reported that...
View ArticleEco guards raise safety concern for birds
NASHIK: With the recent spotting of some rare and scheduled birds at Gangapur dam, city-based environmental activists have once again raised concerns about the disturbance to them. The activists said...
View ArticleBird-hit grounds Singapore flight in Trichy
TRICHY: Ninety-four passengers and five crew members of Tiger Airways' Singapore-Trichy flight underwent some anxious moments after the aircraft suffered a bird-hit that damaged its windshield while...
View ArticleKarnala bird sanctuary is fast losing its feathered friends
Avian refuge on the outskirts of the city has not been as chirpy as it once used to be. The Karnala Bird Sanctuary in the Raigad district that has been home to 140 species of resident and 37 species of...
View ArticlePolicing the bird highway
On a nice, sunny day in the 1960s, air taxi pilot Dick Hamlin picked up two women and their babies to take them to a logging camp on Kasaan Bay. As the air taxi approached Grindall Island, Hamlin...
View ArticleSave-heron effort at meet OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT White-bellied heron...
Guwahati, Nov. 29: Conservation experts from all across the world are converging in Guwahati for three days from December 2 to chart out the first ever strategy for the critically endangered...
View ArticleThis Is What JFK Airport Is Doing To Keep Birds Away From Its Runways
Air France Airbus A380 landing at JFK Wildlife control contractors have shot almost 26,000 birds at John F. Kennedy International Airport over the past five years to stop them interfering with...
View ArticleChennai colleges set aside time for wildlife
Little did Vivek Puliyeri know that he would be able to build a prospective career and also cater to his interest in conserving nature and wildlife when he walked into the campus of Indian Institute of...
View ArticleDouble bird hit delay’s international flight by 18 hours
COIMBATORE: The city's international airport witnessed its first major bird hit in the last six months. A double bird hit on the Air Arabia flight that landed in the city early Monday morning, led to...
View ArticleOne bird hit a month grounds aircraft in Coimbatore
COIMBATORE: Coimbatore airport has reported at least one bird hit every month over the last year. Bird strikes do not cause many air accidents but they do cause hours of delay and expensive repairs for...
View ArticleNot so safe: 2 bird hits a month at Chennai airport
Bird strikes don't cause as many air accidents as they used to till a couple of decades ago, thanks to better resilience and back-up mechanisms of aircraft, but they continue to be a risk. And Chennai...
View ArticleDelhi airport had most number of bird hits in 2014
CHENNAI: Bird strikes don't cause as many air accidents as they used to till a couple of decades ago, thanks to better resilience and backup mechanisms of aircraft, but they continue to be a risk....
View ArticleUltrasonic what? We scare crows with firecrackers
Peer through the window as your plane readies to take off from Chennai airport, and you may see a man setting off fireworks at the far end of the runway. Worry not, for he is scaring away birds to...
View ArticleKarnala bird sanctuary is fast losing its feathered friends
Avian refuge on the outskirts of the city has not been as chirpy as it once used to be. The Karnala Bird Sanctuary in the Raigad district that has been home to 140 species of resident and 37 species of...
View ArticlePolicing the bird highway
On a nice, sunny day in the 1960s, air taxi pilot Dick Hamlin picked up two women and their babies to take them to a logging camp on Kasaan Bay. As the air taxi approached Grindall Island, Hamlin...
View ArticleDouble bird hit delay’s international flight by 18 hours
COIMBATORE: The city's international airport witnessed its first major bird hit in the last six months. A double bird hit on the Air Arabia flight that landed in the city early Monday morning, led to...
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