Would it be possible to change laws to add shotguns to passenger airliners? Geese are smart!?
I deplore oiling eggs to keep geese populations in check. I would advocate having a very few people with 410 shotguns to kill a few of these unnecessarily protected birds on golf cources and other people areas. Also equip a few airliners or perhaps even a few smaller planes with sound equipment to make them sound like an airliner to shoot a few birds. I am not calling for a wholesale slaughter, but just a very low percentage to teach the birds they are not welcome. I believe the birds will learn to avoid airliners as they try to avoid hunters during hunting season. They will learn to head for marsh areas and open lakes and away from where they are not welcome. During hunting season, particularly I believe, they head for protected areas where hunting is not allowed..
Much discretion would have to be used in both cases with regard as to where spent shot would land.
dennis mac
This is actually being done actively around airports all over the world and has been for many, many years. Guns with live ammunition are generally not used however because of the safety issues as well as the environmental issues. There isn’t any truly effective method of discouraging birds from nesting or feeding near airports, but there is an amazing diversity of ideas in use to combat the problem, ranging from killing birds to scaring them. The problem is, there are simply too many birds. While some can be “trained” to avoid airport areas, it is not possible to influence all of them all of the time without disrupting human activities too. For the present, it’s a problem we just have to live with until an effective, humane solution is found. Fortunately, while there are many bird strikes every day (I’ve had many myself), the vast majority are totally inconsequential.
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