Bird Hazard Avoidance
Is anyone aware of any development of aircraft onboard devices that would keep away birds/flying animals?
I don't know about any biological study, but considering animal behavior, it's my humble opinion that when birds don't immediately deviate from an aircraft's path, it's because the bird assumes that the "big awkward flying shiny noisy animal" is seeing it, and will turn away to prevent a collision.
We can't just assume birds know about aircrafts and that we can't all around see as they can.
Maybe a low profile ultrasound/infrasound device that has, let's say, 0.5nm range that could be interpreted as a big bird scaring off other flying animals, would veer them away?
To me, the main problem in the bird hazard field is the lack of communication between aircraft and bird.
We don't announce ourselves if they're on our way, and we can't assume they are looking at the aircraft's direction.