Throughout last year, Brazil recorded 927 cases of collisions between aircraft and birds. This type of occurrence, which in aviation is called “Bird Strike”, grew 24.3% compared to the previous year, when 746 episodes were recorded.
This year, until April 1, 55 occurrences of “Bird Strike” in the country, according to the registration of the Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention System (Sipaer), a tool of the Center for Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention (Cenipa) were counted. There were no victims in any of these episodes. Last Saturday (5), two latam planes collided with birds in Guarulhos (SP).
One of the mechanisms used by airports to mitigate the risk of poultry collision is the so -called falcoaria, which consists of “rounds” made by trained hawks to scare and capture birds that are near the landing and takeoff tracks.
In Porto Alegre, Falcoaria has been used since 2024 by Fraport Brasil, a concessionaire responsible for the airport of the state capital. The service is done by the outsourced company Radar Environmental Solutions.
Biologist Denise Giani, from Radar, explains that the hawks make flights of “crumbling or capture of animals”. “At the time of capture, the bird of prey holds the prey on the floor and awaits the arrival of the Falcoiro”, who is the professional responsible for training and taking care of the hawks.
“Arriving to the bird, the Falcoiro will offer her a reward, which is her food, and she will understand that she can release that prey,” explains Denise.
To prevent the captured birds from being injured or killed, the biologist explains that a beaded beads are placed on the clutches of the birds of prey. These objects “will make it more difficult to pierce a bird that may be captured.”
What happens to the captured birds
The biologist explains that, in Porto Alegre, the bird with the most frequency of occurrences is wanting. “We also have carcará, torch and saralura captures.”
“These birds all come here to the base of the radar, inside the airport, undergo a veterinary assessment, stay here for a maximum of two days.”
Then a team of the dealership takes the birds to a release area, located about 120 kilometers from the airport. “The main goal is to make the airport an unlawful place for fauna,” says José Carlos Saraiva, operational security manager at Fraport Brazil.
Falcons Training
Denise Giani explains that hawk training lasts about three months and begins when birds are puppies.
“The first step is to make birds get used to human touch, with management, so that they do not stress about it,” he says.
Then, the biologist adds, a conditioning work is done, which is done by Falcoiro. “He uses some tools for the bird to be tied to him and have the reward, which is the food. He uses a whistle: to the whistle signal, this bird knows that it will have a command to have its performance and, after the whistle, will have the reward, which is the flesh.”
This content was originally published in airports use hawks to avoid collisions between airplanes and birds; Understand on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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