The Bird 'Snarge' Menacing Air Travel | WIRED
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When winged wildlife slams into aircraft, disasters can happen. Inside the world of bird-strike countermeasures, where “snarge” is the enemy.
Jan 24, 2020 7:00 AM It's a Bird! It's a Plane! The Midair Collisions Menacing Air Travel When birds slam into aircraft, disasters can happen. Inside the world of bird-strike countermeasures, where “snarge” is the enemy. Illustration: Casey Chin; Getty Images Richard Dolbeer was once the man to call if millions of blackbirds or fruit bats were ravaging your fields. When he joined the US Department of Agriculture in 1972, Dolbeer chose to specialize in handling what he and his fellow biologists term “human-wildlife conflicts”—situations in which animals wreak havoc in places that Homo…
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