USDA Kills 800 Birds

[terem]

"About 800 Canada geese have been trapped and gassed around New York City's two airports in an effort to reduce the kinds of bird strikes that led to the ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River last winter.


Birds have been culled from 15 sites within five miles of LaGuardia and Kennedy airports.



U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Carol Bannerman says agency biologists and other specialists are trapping and euthanizing the birds. Officials plan to kill 2,000 geese within weeks.


U.S. Airways Flight 1549 had just taken off from LaGuardia on Jan. 15 and was over the Bronx when it ran into geese and lost both engines.



Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed the plane in the river that lies between Manhattan and New Jersey. All 155 aboard survived."


http://www.nypost.com/seven/06192009...far_175112.htm

Has anyone heard of this?
Perhaps they should invent a technology that could repel the birds, a sound or light. Or perhaps a technology for the plane engine so that a bird strike isn't so detrimental to the aircraft. I don't know if any of that is possible; it just really bothers me that all of those birds are being killed.

[Mahk]

Transportation = animal death. Boat propellers slice up dolphins and whales, cars and trucks kill millions of mammals, birds, reptiles, you name it, every day. There's no way to prevent it short of eliminating transportation.

"Bird strike" isn't new and is simply the road kill in the air. It's been researched to death and there are no bullet proof solutions. [Some airports have trained collies which spend all day chasing away birds, for example]

I hear the pilot of that jet heroically saved the lives of many primates that were on board that day, too.

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It's amazing how calm they all are in the audio. Jumbo jets landing by gliding is an extreme no-no and usually fatal for all.