Tweeters,

One of the few Barnacle Geese that showed up on the east coast this
winter was first seen with Canada Geese quite close to JFK airport.
It soon moved, and was last reported near LaGuardia.

What's the chances?

The USAF has put a lot of time, trouble, money, and effort into
avoiding bird-aircraft strikes, especially in Alaska. It may be, at
the end of the day, as they say, that birds were not the cause of this
latest ditching.

Larry Schwitters
Issaquah
On Jan 20, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Brien Meilleur wrote:

> Hello Tweets,
> I too have been unhappy about the "bad rap" that birds in general,
> and Canada geese in particular, have gotten in the major media
> following the water landing of the US Airways Airbus in the Hudson
> River following what's described as a "bird strike." If indeed
> Canada geese are found to be the "culprits," the incorrectness of
> this negative attribution to birds in general and to Canada geese in
> particular resides in the likelihood that these birds were more
> likely the progeny of birds ("maxima"?) that were introduced into
> the New York City area for purposes of park and garden
> "adornment" (and possibly poorly planned "recovery" efforts) in the
> 1960s, rather than being from truly wild migratory populations.
> Thus, the ultimate "culprits" in this accident are more likely the
> humans and the municipalities responsible for these introductions,
> which resulted in the sedentarization and rapid population growth of
> the introduced birds, rather than the birds themselves.
> Brien Meilleur
> Lake Forest Park, WA
> brienm at live.com
>
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