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Canada Goose Cull

To: "'Paul Dodd'" <>, "'Stephen Ambrose'" <>, "'Carl Clifford'" <>, "'storm'" <>
Subject: Canada Goose Cull
From: "Tony Russell" <>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:16:40 +0930
I reckon most of them, the smaller ones anyway, get chewed up by the fan
blades.

-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Paul Dodd
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:12 PM
To: 'Stephen Ambrose'; 'Carl Clifford'; 'storm'
Cc: 'Birding-Aus (Forum)'
Subject: Canada Goose Cull


I recall flying into many regional strips in the past and having to make
a low pass over the field to clear the kangaroos before coming back to
land. I never hit any kangaroos, and I don't recall any friends of mine
hitting kangaroos, but they're certainly a hazard. Most public airfields
these days have invested in fences - but that has more to do with
anti-terrorism measures than keeping stock and wildlife off the runway.
By far the majority of regional airstrips are privately owned and have
no requirement to provide fencing, so wildlife remains a hazard.

To be honest though I'm surprised that there aren't more bird strikes in
Australia - I can only recall reading the occasional incident report.
There's about 500 reported bird strikes in Australia each year (all bird
strikes are supposed to be reported, but I bet they're not). Of these,
5-10% result in minor damage to the aircraft (dents, etc) and 2-6%
result in serious damage (cracked windshields, dented leading edges,
damage to propellers, damage to engines).

Paul Dodd
Docklands, Victoria


-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Stephen Ambrose
Sent: Saturday, 20 June 2009 3:20 PM
To: 'Carl Clifford'; 'storm'
Cc: 'Birding-Aus (Forum)'
Subject: Canada Goose Cull

Kangaroos, wallabies and domesticated livestock (e.g. cattle & sheep)
pose a significant risk to aircraft taxiing along runways at many
Australian airports, particularly at regional airports.

Stephen Ambrose
Ryde, NSW


-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Carl Clifford
Sent: Saturday, 20 June 2009 2:32 PM
To: storm
Cc: Birding-Aus (Forum)
Subject: Canada Goose Cull

Storm,

  Between 1990 and 2005 in the USA, aircraft struck 58 turtles, 14  
Alligators and 17 Green Iguanas. There was no record of any of them  
being airborne. I would imagine that the numbers of turtles and  
Iguanas might be a bit higher though, as I don't think you would  
notice much of an impact if you ran over one with something like a  
747. An Alligator could be a bit bumpy though.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford


On 20/06/2009, at 1:50 PM, storm wrote:


The only sensible move that appears to be coming out of this is  
discouraging
people in NY from feeding the geese in the suburbs around the airport.
Reducing the supply of food could have a significant impact on the  
number of
birds in the vicinity.

However, knowing how people love to feed birds I suspect this is a  
doomed
method of control.

There are interesting figures around for bat (flying-fox) strike which  
have
recently been produced in Australia - Townsville tops the list. Some
American states record 'reptile' strikes too. Sadly not specific as to
species.

storm


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