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Could Radar Help Make Birdstrikes a Thing of the Past?

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Birds and airplane compete for right-of-way at Sky Harbor Airport and Seaplane Base (image by Donald Emmerich, Wikimedia Commons). The damage to the bird in question tends toward the catastrophic.) But one that hasn’t been widely adopted, at least in the United States, is avian radar, according to a recent New York Times op-ed.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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This year, it seems I wrote one post on birding in Shanghai each month – and I am still not even sure anyone is interested in these. Probably the most interesting bird this month was a Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher showing up in the Shanghai Botanical Garden. I know – sexism is very common in the birding world.

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