Re: Radioactive spill near Dorval airport

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Perhaps there is a correlation due to the birds (per article below). 
Bird droppings, better known as "radioactive material fall-out".

Sunday October 24 12:03 PM ET 

Airports Use Falcons To Scare Birds  

By The Associated Press  

Military airfield managers aren't the only ones turning to falcons to 
help keep birds from runways. A few civilian airports are employing 
the same strategy.  

New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport started using falcons in 1996 
to complement the airport's use of shooting to disperse birds from a 
nearby gull colony, said Richard Dolbeer, a bird-aircraft strike 
expert who heads a U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife research 
center in Sandusky, Ohio.  

Montreal's Dorval International Airport also is using falcons, he 
said.  

Other airports have found birds of prey aren't the only critters 
capable of scaring away birds.  

Canada's Vancouver International Airport and Southwest Florida 
International Airport at Fort Myers have recently begun using border 
collies to scare geese and cranes from runways and prevent them from 
nesting nearby, Dolbeer said.  

Several of the nation's biggest airports now employ full-time 
biologists to deal with birds. The need is typically greatest at 
airports near wetlands or wildlife preserves.  

With commercial air traffic increasing and some bird populations - 
like Canada geese - increasing, programs to prevent  
bird-aircraft strikes will likely expand, Dolbeer said. 

Sandy Perle
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