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Raptors nr Campbell Park - a follow-up re bird strikes at Canberra Airpo

To: "'Robin Hide'" <>, <>
Subject: Raptors nr Campbell Park - a follow-up re bird strikes at Canberra Airport (and an earlier COG discussion)
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:38:35 +1100
Years ago Peter Davison, Alison Rowell & Felix Schlager worked on a team that investigated and made safety recommendations on this issue. They were a good little unit until disbanded, mainly by Air Vice Marshall Alan Heggen, who I later worked with at DVA (so that is how I know that part of the story). They produced annual reports for the CAA (or its predecessor). Their focus was Australia wide and I assume included Canberra but Canberra did not feature strongly in their concern (not many incidents here). In I think 1990 I also went through their years of data as was available at the time and provided a summary and discussion on that (about 20 pages at a guess). My approach was to resort the data by bird groupings and look at likely habitat uses for those birds. I still have that if you are interested. I am writing this quickly from my now slipping memory of my work on the issue, without going back to check on the actual data.
 
These data appear that they would be in addition to what you quote, unless those reports are referenced therein.
 
There is a lot of studies of this issue outside Australia.
 
Philip
 
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Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Raptors nr Campbell Park - a follow-up re bird strikes at Canberra Airport (and an earlier COG discussion)

Thinking about the location of the WTEs I saw this morning in relation to the Canberra Airport runway, I wondered whether there were any  records of bird strikes involving aircraft and WTE locally.

Some googling turned up the following that may be of interest to some list members as it updates information from an earlier COG chatline query/discussion in 2002/2007 ("Bird strikes at Canberra Airport", see http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2007-01/msg00217.html). The short answer re WTE and Canberra planes is no, tho they have been involved in strikes in most other states (see Table 10, page 29 in the ATSB report below).

Apparently there are at least two earlier reports giving some Canberra Airport bird strike data

1. For the period from 1969 to 1987- see
ACT Parks and Conservation (1994). Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve, Management Plan 1994. ACT Parks and Conservation Service, Canberra.

2. For the period 2002-2006,
see  Barnett, G et al (2010).Planning the Sustainable Urban Renewal of East Lake, East Lake Wetland Interface Study. Task 5, Final Report, 13 April 2010, http://www.csiro.au/files/files/pvwi.pdf

The most recent, and apparently very comprehensive, report covers the period 2002-2009 (and is available online, see below):

Australian Transport Safety Bureau (2010). Australian aviation wildlife strike statistics: Bird and animal strikes 2002 to 2009. ATSB TRANSPORT SAFETY REPORT, Aviation Research and Analysis Report, AR-2009-064. Canberra, Australian Transport Safety Bureau. http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/1574235/ar2009064.pdf

Some idea of the detail in its reporting is seen from this part of its Contents:

3 BIRDSTRIKES BY OPERATION TYPE .................................................... 7
4 BIRDSTRIKES IN AUSTRALIAN STATES AND TERRITORIES ........ 9
5 BIRDSTRIKES AT AUSTRALIAN AERODROMES ............................. 13
6 SIGNIFICANT AUSTRALIAN BIRDSTRIKES ...................................... 19
6.1 Bird ingestions by aircraft engines ..................................................... 19
6.1.1 Birdstrike occurrences with engine ingestions ........................ 19
6.2 Damage caused to aircraft by birdstrikes ............................................ 21
6.2.1 Aircraft parts damaged from birdstrikes .................................. 21
6.2.2 Birdstrikes resulting in serious damage ................................... 23
6.3 Personal injuries resulting from birdstrikes ........................................ 23
6.4 Other significant birdstrike occurrences ............................................. 24
7 RECENT INTERNATIONAL BIRDSTRIKE ACCIDENTS .................. 25
7.1 Airbus A320 ditching on the Hudson River ....................................... 25
7.2 Crash of Cessna 500 following collision with pelicans ...................... 26
8 BIRD TYPES, NUMBERS STRUCK AND SIZE ..................................... 29
8.1 Type of birds struck ............................................................................ 29
8.1.1 Total birdstrikes by bird type ................................................... 29
8.1.2 Damaging birdstrikes by bird type ........................................... 34
8.1.3 Damaging birdstrikes by bird type and operation type ............ 37
8.2 Multiple birds struck ........................................................................... 38
8.3 Size of birds struck ............................................................................. 40
8.3.1 Total birdstrikes by bird size ................................................... 40
8.3.2 Damaging birdstrikes by bird size and operation type ............. 43


Robin Hide

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