back in the heady days after sully turned an airbus into a boat, I offered bird evasion techniques. I still stand by them.
I do ask that someone somehow actually take a look at which engines and airframes seem most effected by the birds. those engines with the extra wide inlets just seem asking for more problems than the little skinny ones with smaller inlets (and yes i'm being a little silly here, not naming names of engine types...but you know which engines I'm talking about). Please also remember that fuel efficent engines are in more wide spread circulation (forgive the pun) than they were 30 years ago...more birds? more fuel efficent engines...?
hmmm