A new report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau showed Australian planes hit more than 16,000 birds in the past 10 years with the most bird strikes happening in Brisbane.
The new report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau released on Wednesday showed there were 1139 bird strikes in Brisbane, the most of any Australian city between 2008 and 2017.
Luckily, the report shows that despite the prevalence of bird strikes, there were no serious injuries or fatalities in this time period, and only nine have resulted in minor injuries to either pilots or passengers.
A spokeswoman for the Brisbane Airport Corporation said the airport was the largest of Australian capital cities by land size, and that while not all wildlife strikes can be prevented, the airport deploys mechanisms including bird distress signals and pyrotechnics to combat the issue.