According to the Tacoma News Tribune, one of the species of concern at
McChord AFB is "larks." I have no idea what species that might be!

Too bad bird activity and migration routes weren't taken into consideration
before deciding where to build airports in the first place (not to mention
how they always seem to be located the foggiest spots, too). The best
research is probably that done in Israel (talk about a migration funnel!),
as evidenced by a gentleman who came over here and gave some bird talks a
number of years ago as a guest of Bud Anderson at Falcon Research Group.
Information is available at:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFA+Publications/Photo+exhibits/Migrating+Birds+Know+No+Boundaries.htm

As bad as this is for us, it is certainly worse for the birds.

Diane Yorgason-Quinn
Wauna, WA
Avosetta at hotmail.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Schwitters
To: Brien Meilleur
Cc: Tweeters
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Canada geese and bird strikes


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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