Reducing Airport Birdstrikes through Strategic Management of Upland Sandpiper Breeding Habitat
Record Type: DOT
At the Portsmouth International Airport in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, birds living in long grass on the airport grounds pose risks to aircraft using the facility. Upland Sandpipers, which are state endangered, live in New Hampshire only at this airport because it meets their habitat needs of large open grasslands. Since they are protected, the state has an obligation to provide for their continued existence. The upland sandpipers themselves pose no risk to the aircraft but wildlife, especially birds, attracted to the long grass do. The challenge is to preserve attractive (to the upland sandpipers) long grass breeding areas on the airport in locations where the other wildlife associated with long grass will not pose a hazard to aircraft. This project will carry out research on the upland sandpipers at Portsmouth International Airport with the object of identifying the breeding habitat needs of the population and what could be done to shift them to another section of the airport grounds.
Start date: 2008/9/1
Status: Active
Contract/Grant Number: 14282U
Total Dollars: 49900
Source Organization: New Hampshire Department of Transportation
Date Added: 07/07/2008
Index Terms: Airport operations, Airports, Bird strikes, Birds, Habitat (Ecology), Wildlife, Portsmouth (New Hampshire), Research projects,
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