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Avisure has undertaken some wildlife hazard management work in Africa, as Jeff Follett, Avisure CEO, reports.
Avisure has undertaken some wildlife hazard management work in Africa, as Jeff Follett, Avisure CEO, reports.
The continuing wet weather along the east coast of Australia creates favourable conditions especially for the Australian white ibis, Threskiornis moluccus, and its cousin, the straw-necked ibis (T. spinicollis). Known affectionately as the ‘bin chicken’ or ‘tip turkey’, the white ibis, traditionally more of an inland species, has adapted well to urban coastal environments.
Many parts of eastern Australia have experienced some extreme summer weather in the past few months. Avisure is closely monitoring these seasonal conditions, and the impact of the flooding, which has occurred almost the length of the east coast, on wildlife behaviour.
A wonderful bird is the pelican, for its bill can hold more than its belly can.’ That pouched bill is the pelican’s distinctive feature, holding up to 13 litres of water.
Cairns Airport carried out its biggest-ever full-field emergency exercise in June 2023: ‘Northern Overrun’.
The southern black-backed gull is found throughout the southern hemisphere (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and sub-Antarctic islands), and, particularly in New Zealand, is a widespread and super-abundant bird species.
Avisure recently undertook an audit of #FraportGreece’s wildlife hazard management system (WHMS), which encompasses 12 Greek regional (civilian) airports: Corfu, Kavala, Kefalonia, Kos, Mitilini, Mykonos, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Thessaloniki and Zakynthos.
Autumn – March, April and May – in northern parts of Australia is often marked by increasing flying- fox activity, as they fly to feed on the nectar of flowering melaleuca and eucalypts.