Pooch Dog Wants To Wring A Few Goose Necks and Shake Their Eggs to Death!!

Pooch Dog was raised in Missouri and saw geese flying overhead in the fall. But, when winter arrived, the geese were nowhere around. This is no longer the case! A friend of mine still lives in the Columbia, Missouri area near a lake. Canada Geese now winter on his lake, crapping all over the place! He has become an accomplished goose egg shaker! Seems you need a permit to sneek up on goose nests, find their eggs, and shake them to tambourine heaven! That kills the embryo in the egg, and the mother goose continues to lay on the egg. And, wonders! No goslings.

Or, that is what I was told.

But, on to the actual topic: birds striking aircraft. US Airways 1549. Seems the number of such incidents has been increasing dramatically in recent decades. Seems the goose populations in the United States is increasing rapidly. Here's a map showing goose densities, following by some excerpts from the article...

Growing populations of birds and humans in the same areas have put the species on a collision course in the air that's almost always deadly for the birds and severely hazardous, if not fatal, to humans, too. Human developments and bird-restoration programs have created new ecological niches that some bird species have jumped in to fill.
In particular, the Canada goose population is proving particularly problematic. Their numbers have ballooned to more than 3.5 million, and the birds don't migrate, they stick around our cities. Many of the geese along the eastern seaboard are closer to feral than wild. After their forebears were nearly hunted to extinction, many domesticated birds were released into the wild (pdf), creating a specific population of geese uniquely suited to the "current landscaping techniques" of our urban and suburban landscapes. In the map at the right, you can see that most of the country is seeing large annual increases goose populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report (linked above) found that the population of Canada geese in the eastern United States increased at a rate of 14 percent a year from 1989 through 2004.
The rising bird numbers are overwhelming the efforts of airport operations managers to cope with the problem, despite increasingly sophisticated technology to scare the birds away. Joseph also said that the Federal Aviation Administration wasn't taking the bird strike problem seriously.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/birdstrikes.html

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