Increasing trend of damaging bird strikes with aircraft outside the airport boundary: Implications for mitigation measures

Human-Wildlife Interactions

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-248

  Dolbeer, Richard A ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird strike; Canada goose; Human wildlife conflicts

Indexed keywords

ANSER; AVES; BRANTA CANADENSIS;

EID: 84856257020     PISSN: 21553858     EISSN: 21553874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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