My old company had an SOP to have the landing lights on below FL100. My current company (LOCO) likes them off as much as possible to save bulbs. After ingesting some starlings recently on the initial climbout, I now leave them on a bit longer. I'm not suggesting that this has any direct relevance to this event (and it didn't help Ryanair's NG, which would have had them on) but anything that might help reduce the number of bird strikes is worth considering.