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In article <4jtjvg$jo0@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, bt142@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
(Bob Allisat) wrote:

> Here is the situation...The Squamish district council is going to
> ammend the official community plan (by passing a bylaw) to change
> a small local airport currently designated as a limited used to
> Industrial in order to secure a Seattle commercial airline deal
> for scheduled flights.
> 
> What this means is that the airport will see a huge increase in
> traffic right through the eagle nesting ground airspace.

  How much traffic increase? One or two commercial flights a day?

> THIS WILL AFFECT THE EAGLE POPULATION...

    Not necessarily. Maybe the eagles are a lot smarter than you think.

> I am looking for information on the effects of a commercial airport
> to the  Bald Eagle winter nesting site. (This will be tough, as I
> understand Brackendale is the largest of only 3.)

About 10 years ago San Jose (CA) International (LOTS of jet traffic) 
had a problem with airliners hitting hawks.

Seems that the hawks found the hunting quite nice there (lots of
ground squirrels). There were so many hawk strikes that the 
authorities had to start trapping and moving the hawks. 

I also heard that the bird strike problem was with the young hawks -
the old ones were wise enough to get out of the way.

You can still go there and see hawks sitting on top of the windsock,
waiting for their next meal.