<div id="subtitle">Bird-plane strikes may exceed 10,000 for first time in 2009; planes damaged, destroyed</div><div><p>Reports of airplanes hitting birds and other wildlife have soared in the year since a stricken US Airways jet landed in New York's Hudson River, and the government's tally for ...

<div id="subtitle">From Shakespeare's pen to national nuisance, pesky European starlings stubbornly hang on</div><div><p>The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare — or, better yet, a few of his strangest fans.</p><p>Had the Bard ...

<div id="subtitle">Safety board says aircraft not designed to withstand collisions with large birds</div><div><p>The risk of commercial airplanes crashing because they've struck large birds is increasing and design standards should be strengthened so that aircraft can withstand the collisions, federal safety officials said Tuesday.</p ...