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Gulls and Aircraft *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Victor E. F. Solman
Victor E. F. Solman
Affiliation:
Coordinator, Environmental Impact Assessment, Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Birds, struck during flight by fast-moving modern aircraft or getting ingested in jet engines, cause numerous serious accidents of which some involve human deaths. Gulls of various species are the birds involved in a considerable proportion of these accidents due to bird-strikes.

Gull-strikes of aircraft in flight may be expected:

1. When there is a chronic attraction such as a concentrated worm or insect population, a high mouse population, or some other biological attractant;

2. When there is lack of care in disposal of food-wastes;

3. When drainage on an airfield or on flat-roofed buildings is not properly designed or is not functioning well; or

4. During the early autumn when large numbers of inexperienced, immature gulls are in flight.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , Winter 1978, pp. 277 - 280
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1978

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