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Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63). |
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Contents: Population estimates of breeding albatrosses. |
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Contents: Summary of experimental control methods tested. |
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Contents: Terrain modification on Sand Island, Midway. |
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Contents: Nesting studies. |
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Contents: Habitat management on Green Island, Kure Atoll. |
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Contents: Studies of other species at Midway. |
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Contents: Recommendations. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Abstract: At Midway Naval Station military aircraft collide with flying albatrosses at the rate of about 300 to 400 per year. One aircraft out of every five that hits an albatross on takeoff either aborts (stops before it becomes airborne), or dumps fuel and returns for appraisal of damage. |
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Abstract: Control methods tested experimentally include disturbance, gunfire, other sounds, radar beams, smoke, odors, destruction of nests, eggs, chicks, and adults, moving of birds, eggs, and chicks, erection of obstacles to flight, and habitat management. Habitat management (leveling and hardsurfacing of shoulders of runways) has been most effective. |
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Abstract: Recommendations are made for reducing the bird hazard and for protecting birds that are not involved in the hazard. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Robbins, Chandler S. Birds and aircraft on midway islands. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1966 (OCoLC)632775740 |