Quantification of avian hazards to military aircraft and implications for wildlife management.

ABSTRACT: Collisions between birds and military aircraft are common and can have catastrophic effects. Knowledge of relative wildlife hazards to aircraft (the likelihood of aircraft damage when a species is struck) is needed before estimating wildlife strike risk (combined frequency and severity component) at military airfields. Despite annual reviews of wildlife strike trends with civil aviation since the 1990s, little is known about wildlife strike trends for military aircraft. We hypothesized that species relative hazard scores would correlate positively with aircraft type and avian body mass. Only strike records identified to species that occurred within the U.S. (n = 36,979) and involved United States Navy or United States Air Force aircraft were used to calculate relative hazard scores. The mo

SUBMITTER: Pfeiffer MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6211720 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature