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NEW YORK The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after the famous ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday proposed making it easier to round up geese from a federal refuge near Kennedy Airport and kill them, an idea that's meeting opposition from wildlife advocates.
A JetBlue plane bound for West Palm Beach, Fla., made an emergency landing at Westchester County Airport north of New York City on Tuesday. A Los Angeles-bound jet made an emergency landing at Kennedy Airport after a bird strike on the right engine a week ago.
No one was hurt, but Grant Cardone, a sales training consultant who was on the flight out of Kennedy and was filming video from his window in seat 1D as the birds hit the plane, said it was scary. ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20120426/US.Flights.Bird.Strikes/?cid=hero_media
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)I wonder if the geese could be used as a food source for food banks and soup kitchens.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Soup kitchens are probably better, as goose can be a pita to cook.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)We cook turkeys all the time at the kitchen I volunteer at. Geese seem a little bit more oily.
If the ecology of the habitat surrounding the airport is healthy, the geese should be healthy.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)I was thinking that people at a soup kitchen might be able to get it together, but cooking a goose at home can be tricky.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)nt
shraby
(21,946 posts)Remmah2
(3,291 posts)Would they return?
Nesting in the flightpath of an airport is not exactly romantic, why do they nest there in the first place?
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)They're geese, they neither know nor care what an airport is.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)nt
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)out of the area.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)and will just hang out in an area year-round.
They probably nest there because nothing can be built there because it's in the flight path of the airport.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)nt
cali
(114,904 posts)horrible dangers to letting them remain.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Geese almost always return to the place they nested before, and very often to the place where they were hatched. Mallard ducks, which also mate for life, also do that. My wife and I have been watching the very same pair of mallards eating under our bird feeder for seven years, now. They nest at a nearby lake. Each year, they bring their fledged ducklings to the feeder, where they all eat until it's time to migrate.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)The remaining goose will soon find another partner.
I needed by daily fix of some political inanity/absurdity or other.
This definitely qualifies.
SOS
(7,048 posts)Does Gilibrand want to landfill and pave over a national park too?
The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refugepart of Gateway National Recreation Areais one of the most significant bird sanctuaries in the Northeastern United States and one of the best places in New York City to observe migrating species. More than 330 bird speciesnearly half the species in the Northeast have been sighted at the refuge over the last 25 years.
http://www.nyharborparks.org/visit/jaba.html
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)There's no reason why a managed goose hunt can't work with the plans of the refuge, and it might even benefit the other species.