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Flight management: How BYU students help prevent bird strikes at Provo Airport
From birds inhabiting the restored Provo River Delta to planes taking off at the growing Provo Airport, flying objects continue to take up the skies along the Utah Lake shoreline. Helping to manage this airspace and reduce collision risks for aircraft passengers and birds alike are students in a Brigham Young University ornithology class. Three times a week, these students go to the delta to conduct point count surveys, where they position themselves in a specific spot and record all the birds they see and hear and track what they're doing: perching, foraging, flying or sitting on the ...