Bird Season Opens Today

Apparently for your safety airports kill thousands of birds. The Sacramento airport calls birds a safety threat and wants permission to kill (I'm sure Congress will get right on it). why? here are 2 quotes from the Sacramento Bee article by Tony Bizjak:

Birds and jets collide frequently, with 7,666 reported instances nationally in 2007, or about one known strike for every 10,000 flights. But it is rare for strikes to cause crashes, injuries or fatalities to passengers, federal officials said.

Sacramento, which lies in the Pacific Flyway bird migration path, has the most bird strikes of any airport in the West, and sixth most in the country, the Federal Aviation Administration reports.

It's not the birds faults that some idiot decided to build an airport directly IN THE WAY OF THEIR ancient migratory paths.

Maybe The Killings will eventually go something like this:

Charlie Alpha 2 this is Charlie Alpha 11 -break-

we have what a visual on a calliope hummingbird entering our airspace -break-


permission to shoot -over-

permission granted -over-

Let the freakouts begin!

NPR quotes the aptly named Carla Dove a feather identification lab expert as saying:

We like to think we're trying to help improve aviation safety, but we're also helping save birds by trying to identify what's causing the problem.

I don't think we need a lab to figure out half of the problem; there are too many planes in the air.