Publications and tools

Bird Risk Assessment Model for Airports and Aerodromes

 

The University of Adelaide and Adelaide Airport Ltd, supported by the AAWHG, have developed a Bird Risk Assessment Model for Airports and Aerodromes.

The model aims to assist in the assessment of the relative risk of an aviation strike posed by bird species at individual airports/aerodromes.  The model also provides a framework to support those aerodromes required by the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations to produce a wildlife management plan.

This tool should allow airport and aerodrome operators to rank species and then focus their bird hazard reduction programs on those species presenting the greatest risk. Both quantitative and qualitative measures of abundances and strikes are used to rank probabilities of a species being involved in a strike at a particular airport since airports differ in the quality and quantity of information that they hold.

In this way the tool is designed to take into account different levels of knowledge and available statistics for different airports.

Bird Risk Assessment Model for Airports and Aerodromes (661 KB)

 

ICAO Electronic Bulletin:  2001 - 2007 Bird Strike Analysis (IBIS)

 

The International Civil Aviation Organization has recently released Electronic Bulletin (EB 2009/37) titled: 2001-2007 Bird Strike Analyses (IBIS). 

This report in summary, provides analysis on the bird strikes that were reported to ICAO over this period and provides some interesting information on Wildlife Hazard Management from a uniquely international perspective.

To view a copy of the bulletin, please click on the above link.

  

Australasian Aviation Fauna Hazard Management Forum and Information Portal

 

As an initiative of the Australian Aviation Wildlife Hazard Group, a discussion forum has been set up through "Google Groups".  Our objective is to provide the industry with an online forum to ask questions and to share information on wildlife hazard management. 

If you want a question answered by a member of the AAWHG or another industry professional, you can post a question and check back later to see the responces provided.

Please click on this link to access the Online forum and information portal

 

Bird and Animal Hazard Management Plan template

 

The Australian Airports Association in co-operation with the Australian Aviation Bird and Animal Hazard Working Group, has developed a National Framework for Bird and Animal Management at airports.

This document provides guidance in developing an airport Bird and Animal Hazard Management Plan. It also includes sample "standard operating procedures" for staff involved in harassment of birds and animals.

Aerodromes or airlines can use this material to develop their own Bird and Animal Hazard Management Plans or as a checklist for reviewing their current Plan.

Bird and Animal Hazard Management Plan template (2.1Mb)

Bird information sheets

 

A set of Bird Information sheets have been developed by the ATSB and cover the 8 birds considered to be hazardous to aircraft operations. These information sheets are available to download from the ATSB website.