When the ADF would do their PNG familiarisation flights they would sometimes manage an overnight at the Bensbach Lodge.
Whilst I was fishing downstream from the lodge one day a Caribou flew low overhead heading down the Bensbach River at the same time as a flock of pelicans, a few hundred metres further downstream, took off into the Caribou's flightpath. See the result of that little incident below.
Next day another Caribou flew up from Townsville and patched up the first Caribou and they both flew back to Oz.
I heard later that the damaged aircraft was retired from service, but that sounds a little hard to believe. There's a bit more to the story but "no names no pack drill." All this happened about thirty years ago.