That is A LOT of birds! A Florida airport is hiring a full-time avian expert at $76,000 a year to stop birds from fowl-ing up its flights.
Up until now, airport staff took turns firing deafening flare guns and propane cannons into the air to ward off vultures, grackles, American kestrels, cattle egrets, doves, pigeons and occasionally a pelican or seagull.
“We’re not just hiring somebody you can find at a park,” said Mike Nonnemacher, the airport operations director for Broward County.
“The $118,000 is pennies compared to losing a $2 million engine,” he said. “We’re being proactive.”
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A young Kyrgyzstani boy apprentices for his father who practices the ancient tradition of ”berkutchy,” or eagle hunting. This enormous Golden Eagle has a wingspan bigger than his trainer and is one of the most powerful predators in the world, known to bring down foxes, goats, and small deer.
TERRIFYING
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Watch out man!hello
the only bird I COULDN’T beat up in an enclosed environment is probably like an ostrich or a cassowary or maybe certain very large swans
they would kill me or in the case of the swan probably bite my nuts
but besides that I bet I could totally beat all the other birds up
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Jeff and I are One.
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Watched these birds shit all over my car window today. Assholes. @fucknobirds
Birds ruin lives.