Originally Posted by
PENKO
Actually, whilst there is more bird activity during the day, a fair number of bird strikes happen at night. In my experience these tend to happen at higher altitudes (on initial approach) compared to the daytime hits which tend to happen around airfields. I’m sure some bird experts can say more about the how and the why.
I suspect that it's a case of, at night, it's either migrating birds or birds returning from some distance away to a roost site and so they are conducting a relatively high-level transit. Day-time, most birds are feeding and so you maybe catch them relocating a few 100m from one area to another looking for food ........... or as they return to the original food source after the bird-scarer wagon drives off!
My "bird expertise" in saying all this? Mainly in blondes ...... slightly less in brunettes!
