BASH

(BIRD AIR STRIKE HAZARDS)

Alternative Pest Management uses effective treatments such as Pyrotechnics, Dogs, Human Harassment, and Mechanical boats to control waterfowl in our wildlife program. We also use skills such as repellers, live trapping, corralling and removal of flocking birds when molting, and nesting and exclusion to further our bird control program.

Bird Air Strike Hazards (BASH) is an important priority to us due to the nature of the area’s aircraft industry. Sharing both the sky and the airport environment with birds and other animals has been a concern to aviation personnel for several years and their impact on aviation safety has been documented over the past ninety years. Since Orville Wright’s days, to the present day, conflicts between wildlife and airplanes have caused damage to aircraft and loss of human life. Over $300 million dollars annually is lost due to wildlife strikes in the United States alone.

There are many factors effecting today’s concern about wildlife and aviation safety. Three of these factors are:
1.) As jet travel replaced the more noisy and slower piston-powered aircraft, the chance of these jets colliding with wildlife increased.
2.) Along with the change in mode of travel there has been an increase in air traffic worldwide, both military and commercial.
3.) Natural habitat surrounds many modern airports and this habitat provides shelter, nesting area, an feeding areas for wildlife that is not usually present in the surrounding metropolitan area.
These results in a majority of wildlife strikes occur within the immediate airport environment.