Carla Dove (right) and her team at the Smithsonian Institution’s Feather Identification Lab. Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Collisions between birds and airplanes can result in a range of damage, the ...

Sometimes we learn about animals not from their direct presence, but from the signs they leave behind: scat, tracks in the snow and sometimes their dead remains - bones or fur or feathers. A friend ...

Dove, Carla J. 1999. "Feather identification and a new electronic system for reporting US Air Force bird strikes." In 1999 Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada, First Joint annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.