As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Monday, 21 January 2013

Fewer bird strikes at JFK Airport reported


Wildlife collisions with aircraft decreased during the first nine months of 2012 at Kennedy Airport, where two JetBlue flights hit birds last weekend, according to statistics kept by the federal government.

There were 121 reported bird strikes at Kennedy Airport through September 2012. That compares with 194 reported strikes there during the first nine months of 2011, according to the Federal...

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/fewer-bird-strikes-at-jfk-airport-reported-1.4476891
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