Letter: Airport letter is a home of 96 species of birds developing in the airfield, a report by the center of Salim Ali for Ornithology and Natural History (Sacon) has revealed.
Not only birds, which raises the risk of a big bird hit, the airport is home to civets and poisonous snakes too.
According to data presented in a temporary report, there are 88 bird hit incidents in the last five years at the airport mail, which also has several shrimp farms around it.
Most of the hit birds were recorded during September, October and November.
The temporary report was submitted to the Indian Airport Authority (AAI) and Sacon would present a strategy to manage wildlife now.
Security at the airport has become a serious problem after the famous incident of the private airline airplane crashed into the buffalo on the basis of 2014.
The study was conducted after the AAI invited Sacon to take a comprehensive study at bird airports to understand the selected airport, identifying troubled birds and suggesting steps Mitigation steps to reduce the dangers of birds and wildlife to airplanes.
The airport letter is recommended by AAI among the five first airports where the study is needed and gets scientific advice to mitigate risk.
Coimbatore-based Institute collects bird and wildlife data from December 2020 to March 2021.
A total of 154 species are recorded in a 10 km airport radius.
“Regarding the disposal of waste, letters is a model of the city and an excellent airport authority also works very closely with corporate officers and police in keeping around it clean.
However, the airport is surrounded by wetlands, water bodies and sealacoasts with many food sources for birds And wildlife, “said the report.
“To understand and prevent this bird attack, knowledge of the factors that lead to the strike birds are very important,” the report stated.
PV Karunakanan, co-investigator study, said, “After sending a temporary report to AAI, we collected more data and start analyzing it.
The final report with suggestions will take several weeks.” In addition to the scheduled airlines, the airport also saw many company flights Located in Hazira, VVIP movements etc.