There was a piece on NPR-ATC this afternoon about bird strikes and the folks at the Smithsonian who work to identify the species hit by planes from the feathers. The most common birds hit by planes? Horned Larks and Mourning Doves.
New bird word: snarge - the bird goo left after a strike. See: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99474333 Claudia Egelhoff Minneapolis, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
