US Airways Flight 1549

Passengers stand on the wings of a US Airways plane after it landed in the Hudson River in New York after a flock of birds struck the engines

Meet a forensic ornithologist, who identifies what’s left after avians and airplanes collide

April 27, 2017Science

Carla Dove says around 13,000 bird strikes are reported to civil aviation, and another 4,000 to 5,000 from the military, every year. Her job is to identify the species.

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