Talk:Bird strike

Death in flying hours

This number makes no sense. Does it refer to the probability of one plane to experience a deadly bird strike or the total of commercial flight hours? Let's say there are 30 million flights a year, ranging from 1 to 16 hours. One in a billion sounds reassuring, but it isn't. 89.244.89.9 (talk) 21:59, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Bird ingestion

Okay, I don't have the patience to figure out who put in the term "bird ingestion", and I'm not gonna add that obnoxious citation needed tag, but is "bird ingestion" really a term in common, or attested, usage? I mean, I love how gruesome it is, but it is also a bit silly. All right, I'm done here. Zweifel (talk) 02:42, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it is the correct term. Ingestion is also used for gun gases entering the engine on gun firing (engine fuelling is altered during gun firing to prevent compressor stalls) and the Panavia Tornado has an exhaust gas re-ingestion audible warning as it slows down with the reverse thrust buckets deployed (gas is deflected forward and enters the engine intakes, the fix is to stow the thrust reverser buckets). Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 16:00, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Environmental Sciences

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 January 2026 and 27 April 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Hanaro4 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: SDPatel06.

— Assignment last updated by MethanoJen (talk) 20:59, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Planning an update

Hello! I'm a student and I've been assigned this article for a semester long project. This is a very interesting topic and I am excited to work it! I'm planning to update the information in this article with some more recent sources as well as clean up the list of citations, as it is quite long and I think could use some tidying. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on additions to the article. Hanaro4 (talk) 01:10, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Proposed update to "Reporting and statistics": current U.S. figures

The section currently gives ICAO IBIS numbers but no United States figures, even though the FAA National Wildlife Strike Database is the largest single public source of strike reports. Proposed addition after the ICAO sentence:

In the United States, the FAA National Wildlife Strike Database has accumulated more than 347,000 reports since 1990. Reported strikes reached a series high in 2025, with 24,458 reports, of which 901 involved aircraft damage. Species struck most often differ from those most likely to cause damage: perching songbirds account for about 41% of identified strikes but damage aircraft in about 1.5% of reports, whereas deer account for under 1% of strikes yet cause damage in about 82% of reported cases.

COI note: I compiled the cited Zenodo aggregate (CC BY 4.0, versioned CSVs derived from the public FAA Access export), so per WP:SELFCITE I am proposing this here instead of editing the article directly. Every figure can be verified against the FAA database itself; if editors prefer to cite only the FAA source, the first sentence stands on its own and the rest can be trimmed. Disclaimer84 (talk) 16:18, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

Mainspace edit

Following the proposal above and no objections after waiting, I added a short subsection under Reporting and statistics citing Zenodo concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21347859 (SMF #1 / SLC #2 by damaging wildlife strikes in the published freeze: 491 / 378). Numbers were re-checked against the deposit CSVs before save. Happy to adjust wording or drop the counts if preferred. Diff: Special:Diff/1367171780. — Disclaimer84 (talk) 13:12, 1 August 2026 (UTC)