From Aviation Week today
The FAA released its bird strike database Friday at the direction of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The agency's fear that the information might cause an unsophisticated public to worry excessively about specific locations proved unfounded. There was a flurry of attention in the general news media over the weekend, now subsided, mostly about the 59,776 total strikes since 2000 and that probably 80 percent of "wildlife strikes" are unreported.
Acting NTSB chairman, Mark Rosenker remarked, "I was particularly gratified to read [Secretary LaHood's] comments . . . suggesting he would support making these reports mandatory. In 1999, the NTSB recommended that the FAA require all airplane operators to report bird strikes." Reporting is currently voluntary.
The NTSB has set a public hearing into the January ditching of US Airways flight 1549 in June. The Board will address bird strike threats to aviation safety at that hearing.
The FAA database is operated and maintained by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. In the its current format, users can perform only limited searches online, and need to download the entire database into their own software for sophisticated searches, which the FAA admits can be cumbersome. An Embry Riddle official told the AOPA that over the next four months, it will make the database more user friendly.
Database available here
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