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[00:00.00]W: Dr. Marshall?
[00:01.43]M: Hello, Gloria. Is it ... uh ... you wanted to talk about your research?
[00:06.27]W: Yes. Is this a good time?
[00:08.24]M: Sure, sure. How’s it coming along? [00:11.13]You’re studying goose populations, right?
[00:13.32]W: That’s right. Well, I was anyway. [00:16.08]That’s what I wanted to talk to you about. [00:18.17]I think I want to go in a different direction.
[00:20.18]M: Oh...?
[00:20.95]W: You see ... it’s like this. [00:23.26] I’ve done a lot of Internet searches, and I’ve, uh, come up with some articles about geese, mostly about problems in urban areas, like city parks. [00:32.43]But there was this one story that kind of got me off in a different direction. [00:35.81]I found out about this accident that happened in Alaska when some geese got sucked into an airplane.
[00:40.78]M: Really? When did that happen?
[00:42.70]W: About six years ago. [00:44.14]It was a pretty bad accident, too. [00:46.10]It was a military jet, and several geese were sucked into two of the engines right after takeoff. [00:51.07]The jet crashed, and the whole crew was killed.
[00:53.41]M: Birds and planes don’t mix—that’s for sure.
[00:56.06]W: For sure. Well, anyway this article got me thinking about birds and plane accidents, so I started ... uh ... researching that, and I found out it’s a pretty serious problem around airports.
[01:07.60]M: Hmm. I can see why.
[01:09.34]W: It’s a big problem especially if the airport is surrounded by bird habitat, like wheat fields or wetlands. [01:14.96]It’s a big problem that I never knew about before.[01:17.58]And then I learned about this program that uses biology to solve the problem.
[01:21.38]M: Oh? How so?
[01:22.72]W: Well, the air force figured out that the right kind of bird can keep the wrong kind of bird away, so they started using peregrine falcons to patrol the runways. [01:31.19]This one air force base used to shoot the birds that were always hanging around the runway. [01:35.63]Mostly it was geese and ducks, because it’s near a wetland. [01:38.61]But now, since they started the falcon program, and since falcons arc predators, there haven’t been any bird- aircraft collisions that required any repairs!
[01:46.49]M: That’s amazing! Well, not really, when you consider the peregrine falcon’s reputation as a predator. [01:52.31]They can exceed 200 miles per hour in a dive—faster than any other living creature. [01:57.52]I imagine just the sight of these birds is enough to discourage any other birds from coming anywhere near the airfield.
[02:04.24]W: It’s true. The falcons and their trainers patrol the runways several times a day, during the lulls between takeoffs and landings. [02:10.76]And after six months of falcon protection, they found that the cost of the program itself was only seven percent of the amount they’d been spending on bird-airplane damage.
[02:18.87]M: So, the benefits of this natural method of bird control are obvious.
[02:22.98]W: Right. The falcons get the credit for keeping the geese and the ducks away. [02:26.70]It’s an interesting solution to the problem, I mean, adding a predator to change the biology of the runway.
[02:32.56]M: Well, I think your research has taken a very meaningful turn. [02:35.92]You’re still studying problem geese, but you’ve just found an interesting angle in the way the problem’s being dealt with. [02:42.81]Keep going with it.
[02:43.79]W: Oh, good. I’m glad you think it’s OK. [02:46.11]Thanks, Dr. Marshall. I appreciate your time.
[02:48.45]M: All right. Good luck.

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