I pull birds, catch birds, shoot, but I am a protective bird

Editor's note: After the last "meeting with birds", we received a special letter. The author is a bird exorcist at Yining Airport in Xinjiang. His daily work is to drive birds near the airport to ensure the safety of aviation. It sounds like a work of "the enemy" with birds, but he told us that bird -driven birds do not blindly drive, intimidation or damage, but to create a safe and harmonious blue sky for birds and aircraft.

This is really a schizophrenia, and such division is doomed from the beginning.

Before becoming an airport bird exorcist, I studied wildlife protection. The graduation thesis was a bird protection. After joining the job, although I deal with birds every day, everything seems to be upside down -my focus of work is no longer protecting birds, but driving, capturing, and even "aiming" the muzzle.

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Birds should have soared freely in the blue sky, except for the first type of area. This is the airport. The huge aircraft was afraid of the bird's impact, because the aircraft was fast, and colliding with the birds was like being hit by a small cannon shell, which was very dangerous. If it is in a critical structure, it is likely to destroy people on the spot. In addition, when the aircraft engine works, it is necessary to inhale the air in large quantities. If the bird is sucked in, it may cause failure, and the consequences will be very serious.

F16 fighter hit by the bird | Wikimedia Commons

According to statistics, accidents caused by bird strike aircraft (that is, incidents that do not constitute an accident but affect or affect safety) are the highest proportion of various types of accidents in civil aviation.

Of course, birds are also afraid of planes. However, compared to their evolution of tens of millions of years, planes are still a new thing. Many birds have not learned how to avoid the plane. The consequences of impact are painful -these unfortunate birds often pay the price of life.

A bird hit the moment when the Boeing 747 passenger plane that is taking off | Aileron Aviation Films/ YouTube

Therefore, whether to ensure the safety of passengers and unit occupants, or to avoid the death of birds who enter the airport due to impact, the bird must be driven away during the take -off and landing stage of the aircraft — the occupation of the airport driving staff is born from this occupation. Essence

Eighteen martial arts of bird exorcments

To put it simply, the work of bird exorcists is to drive the birds over the airport to prevent them from colliding with the plane. There are many ways to drive away, such as playing various sounds, such as the sound of bird screams, the sound of natural enemies, the bird -repellent ultrasound, the firecrackers, the gongs and drums, the greater the movement of the movement, the better the bird exorcise effect; the Some are placed at the airport, simulation, bird -driven flags, wind -driving birds, bird -driven kites, and laser birds. Some airports also trained the sheep dogs, birds, and hulls, and even monkeys to digest bird nests.

Bird Exorcist Falcon Training of Yining Airport | Flying Birds Vote from Forest

Of course, the most ruthless is the bird -driven gun and the bird -driven gun. This can be regarded as heavy equipment, and the bird -driven cannon is also very disturbing the people. However, these devices are only used to intimidate birds and do not really hit them.

In recent years, there are more and more means to drive birds from ecological perspectives. This is just the opposite of the "how to create a good living environment for the birds" I was studying at school. We need to transform the green space near the airport into the most unsuitable appearance of birds inhabiting. For example, the ponds that attract birds are attracted to the grass; the food source plants of birds are removed;

The place where my work was located, 1,000 acres of lavender fields were planted. Lavender is rich in ingredients such as camphor, camphor, and camphor ester, which can effectively drive insect deworms and rat, and reduce the food sources of birds.

Lavender has also been widely planted in Yili, Xinjiang | Gaogaoo / Flickr

This plant itself is not attractive to birds, and is more competitive, which effectively suppresses the growth of bird source plants, and the flowers of lavender can also exert economic benefits.

When the lavender blooms in June, it is fragrant. The passenger plane takes off from the purple -covered land, and it is not a scene.

Yining Airport's Lavender Field | Meng Jin/CAACNEWS

"Bird Network" resumes

Birds strike prevention, and there is another kind of device without any movement, standing silently, silently guarding the safety of each flight, this is the Bird Net.

Using sounds to drive birds just scare them. The birds that the birds find that they do not seem to be too big, and they may come back again; Essence

The long ear cricket captured by the Bird.com looks frightened | Flying Birds vote for forests

Bird Net also has a big advantage -quiet and not disturbing the people. Therefore, it is an essential "artifact" of almost all airports, and it is also the only bird repellent equipment with relevant regulations with the Civil Aviation Administration. But for birds, quiet bird nets are the most difficult and even fatal.

Blockbone net is thin, and the fast -flying birds are difficult to detect and evade. Once they hit the Internet, the thin mesh will wrap their wings, claws and beaks. The more complicated. No matter how high its flight skills are, no matter how fast, whether it is a raptor or a bird, regardless of the national key protection of animals, or an ordinary sparrow, there is no way to encounter a bird network. "Bird Net" is restored, not leaking. The birds entangled by the Bird Network can only wait for the death of death. Golden Obiasis 鸻, entangled by the Bird Network of the airport | Flying Birds vote for forests

But there are exceptions that if the birds are entangled on the Bird Net at Yining Airport, the situation may not be so bad. Although we are called "bird exorcists", we drove birds every day every day, but fundamentally, the safety of the guarantor and birds is our original intention. Therefore, my colleagues and I inspect and check the Bird Network again and again every day, for fear of missing any air elves that need to be rescued.

Bird -exorcist of bird savings everyday

Being able to help a bird by yourself and watching it fly towards the blue sky, it is enough to remember beautiful memories for a long time. For the airport bird exorcists, things like birds happen every day. We rescue 3 to 5 birds every day. At most, there can be 20, mainly with raptors.

Once, we saw a slightly larger bird hanging on the Internet, and then hurried over. I saw a pair of orange -yellow eyes looking at us in horror, hook -shaped mouths and sharp claws showed its power -that was the national second -level protected animal nisus. Its flying feathers and tail feathers were tightly entangled by the net, and it took some effort to rescue.

The sparrow eagle is a medium -sized Raptor, distributed in most parts of my country | Mener Zjeroen / Wikimedia Commons

As if wearing a needle, I carefully unbuttoned the net on it. But this little guy obviously didn't know that we were here to help it, and the fear of human instinct made it a deadly fight with my hand. Unfortunately, I don't wear gloves ... Although this sparrow eagle is only larger than the palm, its claws are not vegetarian, like a needle piercing into my flesh, and the severe pain spreads immediately on the back of the hand. Come.

However, rescue it is our responsibility, and it is tolerated anymore. I still have not stopped my hands to unlock the network cable. In the end, it was successfully rescued.

Rescue the sparrow eagle with bare hands | Flying birds vote for forests

The state of the sparrow eagle was good, and after get off work, I took it to let it go. As soon as it was relieved, it immediately fluttered its wings, and gradually disappeared into our sight under the background of the snowy mountains in the distance.

The child said "goodbye" to this cute little guy, but I still can't let go of it. The rescued birds may still be mistakenly entered the airport after flying, causing the consequences of unwilling to see. Therefore, we usually choose to release places away from the airport runway so that they will fly back to the airport again.

So, how do you know if the flying birds fly back to the airport again? The answer is the bird ring. We will wear a ring to each flying bird, just like giving them a ring, which contains specific number information.

Researchers are wearing foot rings for small birds | USFWS / Wikimedia Commons

For the birds who enter the airport and are entangled with the bird net, if they have a ring on their feet, we can find out its information, knowing if it is a little guy who has come before and does not learn lessons this time. Fortunately, it seems that this situation is relatively small.

After reading the species calendar "The bird who was put back to the blue sky, is it okay now?"", I was so relieved to see more and more people began to care about love to protect birds.As a bird exorcist, if you simply driven birds in accordance with the rules and regulations, it will indeed be a little hard and boring.Once there is a goal, such as rescue more birds, the job of bird exorcists is still very fulfilling.The trapped birds can fly to the blue sky again, and the passengers can take off and land safely, and I am satisfied.Note: The long ears in the question map look cute, but it is actually in a state of panic.Fortunately, in the end, this long ears and golden eyebrows in the picture were successfully released by the author.

Author: Flying Birds Volume Forest

Edit: sharp

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