Hi All! (my first post here)
@lgwops - What do you mean by dramatic effect? Blood? Assuming this is blood, it is visible on two photographs so it is probably not a fake.
@bizzy liz & JW411- I don't know about commercial aviation but looking at Russian fighters like Mig-29, Su-27, there is a technology to protect engines. For Su-27 it is quite sophisticated device as far as I remember. It is not a permanent bareer and it is used during take off and landing only. It was designed to make these planes being able to operate from very poor, dirty runways but I don't know if it applies to birdstrikes.