New county job: Bird harasser for FLL
Taking down an airplane doesn't require a bomb. Just a bird.
After two major bird-airplane collisions at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, federal aviation officials are requiring Broward County to hire a full-time bird-watcher to keep birds from fowl-ing up flights.
The $118,000 expense will include a salary of $76,252 for a wildlife biologist who specializes in keeping animals away from airports.
With that six-figure investment, said the airport's operations director, Mike Nonnemacher, "you could save hundreds of millions of dollars, and/or hundreds of lives.''
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