It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a potentially deadly combination.

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There are thousands of small airports all over the country that do not have the budgets to fence in their properties adequately, endangering countless flights each year, as animals gain easy access to runways and infield areas, cautions researcher Gene Rhodes, whose study of these dangers was published in Human-Wildlife Conflicts. Animal strikes received national attention earlier this year when a commercial pilot was forced to land in New York's Hudson River...