Quantification of avian hazards to military aircraft and implications for wildlife management
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...
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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 most hazardous species to military aircraft was the snow goose (Anser caerulescens), followed by the common loon (Gavia immer), and a tie between Canada goose (Branta canadensis) and black vulture (Coragyps atratus). We found an association between avian body mass and relative hazard score (r2 = 0.76) for all military airframes. In general, relative hazard scores per species were higher for military than civil airframes. An important consideration is that hazard scores can vary depending on aircraft type. We found that avian body mass affected the probability of damage differentially per airframe. In the development of an airfield wildlife management plan, and absent estimates of species strike risk, airport wildlife biologists should prioritize management of species with high relative hazard scores. |
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::898eb0cfe16be555787784e4edd06f0c 2023-05-15T15:46:22+02:00 Quantification of avian hazards to military aircraft and implications for wildlife management Travis L. DeVault Morgan B. Pfeiffer Bradley F. Blackwell 2018-11-01 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6211720 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6211720?pdf=render https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206599 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206599&type=printable https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0206599 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3200&context=icwdm_usdanwrc https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30383828 http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018PLoSO.1306599P/abstract https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdm_usdanwrc/2194/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2898639335 en eng Public Library of Science http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6211720 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6211720?pdf=render https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206599 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206599 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206599&type=printable https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0206599 http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3200&context=icwdm_usdanwrc https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30383828 http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018PLoSO.1306599P/abstract https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdm_usdanwrc/2194/ https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206599 https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2898639335 lic_creative-commons oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6211720 oai:doaj.org/article:4114da03f8284e38a0eae42490b84bb0 10.1371/journal.pone.0206599 30383828 2898639335 10|opendoar____::eda80a3d5b344bc40f3bc04f65b7a357 10|opendoar____::8b6dd7db9af49e67306feb59a8bdc52c 10|driver______::bee53aa31dc2cbb538c10c2b65fa5824 10|doajarticles::830e55b42c4aaa815c19cfa4f2e5855e 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 openaire____::1256f046-bf1f-4afc-8b47-d0b147148b18 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|openaire____::55045bd2a65019fd8e6741a755395c8c 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a 10|openaire____::806360c771262b4d6770e7cdf04b5c5a Research Article Biology and Life Sciences Organisms Eukaryota Animals Vertebrates Amniotes Birds Engineering and Technology Transportation Aircraft Animal Types Wildlife Zoology Aerospace Engineering Aviation Physiology Biological Locomotion Animal Flight Bird Flight Medicine and Health Sciences Ornithology Social Sciences Political Science Governments Armed Forces Raptors Owls Civil Engineering Transportation Infrastructure Airports General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Medicine envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206599 2023-01-22T17:22:47Z 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 most hazardous species to military aircraft was the snow goose (Anser caerulescens), followed by the common loon (Gavia immer), and a tie between Canada goose (Branta canadensis) and black vulture (Coragyps atratus). We found an association between avian body mass and relative hazard score (r2 = 0.76) for all military airframes. In general, relative hazard scores per species were higher for military than civil airframes. An important consideration is that hazard scores can vary depending on aircraft type. We found that avian body mass affected the probability of damage differentially per airframe. In the development of an airfield wildlife management plan, and absent estimates of species strike risk, airport wildlife biologists should prioritize management of species with high relative hazard scores. Article in Journal/Newspaper Branta canadensis Canada Goose Unknown Canada PLOS ONE 13 11 e0206599 |