Metabarcoding avian diets at airports: implications for birdstrike hazard management planning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wildlife collisions with aircraft cost the airline industry billions of dollars per annum and represent a public safety risk. Clearly, adapting aerodrome habitats to become less attractive to hazardous wildlife will reduce the incidence of collisions. Formulating effective habitat management strategies relies on accurate species identification of high-risk species. This can be successfully achieved for all strikes either through morphology and/or DNA-based identifications. Beyond species identification, dietary analysis of birdstrike gut contents can provide valuable intelligence for airport hazard management practices in regards to what food is attracting which species to aerodromes. Here, we present birdstrike identification and dietary data from Perth Airport, Western

SUBMITTER: Coghlan ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3874626 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature