Despite Being No. 1 For Bird Strike Reports, DIA Isn’t Using Bird Radar

By Rick Sallinger
DENVER (CBS4) – Denver International Airport leads the country in the number of reported bird strikes involving aircraft.
Several factors contribute to that distinction, including the size of the airport, wildlife patterns the number of flights and vigilant reporting of the strikes. That’s according to Kendra Cross, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Birds at DIA (credit: CBS)
Other airports are testing out bird — or avian — ra