It's Not Just Birds
According to data from wildlife-mitigation.tc.faa.gov., from 1990 to 2001 there were 28,493 known bird strikes, 64 percent occurring during the daytime, 4 percent at dawn, 5 percent at dusk and 27 percent at night. Beyond bird strikes, during the reporting period there were 676 mammal (mostly deer...
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