Drunk birds give airport trouble

“There were these little birds that kept flying around and acting crazy. They were flying all over the entrance road and disturbing people as they drove into the airport,” said Ken Martin, environmental compliance manager for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He explained that the cedar waxwing birds were causing all sort of problems. “Sometimes you could walk up thinking one of these birds was dead. Then you got to it would be alive and fly off.” After some research, the airport was able to safely find out the problem. “What we found was that these birds love a certain type of berry and they would get drunk from them. So what we did is cut back on those bushes a great deal and haven’t had any trouble since.”

This is just one example of how wildlife is dealt with at the airport. Martin said, “The goal is to scare the animals away from the airport because they interfere with safety. We don’t use lethal methods, we usually look at changing the habitat in the area so animals are not attracted to the airport.”

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