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Incorporating the new information management technologies to the breeding of birds of prey used at airports to avoid impacts with aircraft has been the objective of the thesis recently defended by the professor of the University Center of Defense (CUD) José Luis Roca González, within the Industrial Technologies PhD program of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT). The research has developed a mathematical model to identify the so-called "correct hunger point" that guarantees the success of raptors used to create exclusion zones Wildlife at airport transit locations.
"Feeding is key to modulate the behavior of raptors," says the professor.
"If it is satiated or underfed it will not have the propensity or energy necessary to hunt and generate the effect of deterrence of fauna that is pursued to avoid impacts in the air transport", it indicates. For the development of the case study the data were processed Of the Wildlife Control Service of the dual-use civil and military airport of San Javier, analyzing for this a total of 178,850 records generated over a period of ten years and made available by the company Jesús Brizuela Martínez , Whose experience was born from the hand of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente in 1971.
San Javier has about twenty birds of prey for this deterrent objective. "The impacts of birds in the sector generate losses of nine million euros each year in Spain," estimates the researcher, who has created a management platform in Network to share information and knowledge generated between falconers and falconers in other airports. Directed by teachers Juan Antonio Vera and Antonio Juan Briones, the thesis received the highest academic qualification.
Source: UPCT
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