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3 Background This synthesis provides airport managers and biologists with a working reference document that reviews the tools, methods, techniques, procedures, and considerations for reducing aircraft collisions associated with wildlife population control management on airports and in the immediate surrounding areas. Wildlife population control on airports is a unique application of more broadly defined wildlife damage management that can and should be used as part of an integrated wildlife management strategy.
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4 following information highlights the real and potential wildlife threat to aviation. Note that the following data are those actually reported and are generally accepted to underrepresent actual losses by between 61% and 89% (Linnell et al.
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5 crested Cormorants, Sandhill Cranes, Osprey, and Red-tailed Hawks (Dolbeer et al.
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6 below 3,500 ft above ground level (AGL) (Dolbeer 2006; Dolbeer et al.
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7 Survey Fifteen representative airports from all nine FAA regions were sent a wildlife populations control and management survey (Appendix D)
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