Thereby reducing the risk of bird strikes.

我们的研究使鸟撞飞机的风险得以降低。

They are usually caused by a bird or lightning striking the window.

这种情况通常是由鸟或闪电击中玻璃引起的。

There are several reasons why bird strikes are happening more often.

鸟撞事件频繁发生的原因有以下几个。

Bird strikes cost the airline industry billions in delays and damages.

鸟撞造成的飞机延误和损坏，导致航空业数十亿美元的损失。

Aeronautical companies use Carla's data to develop planes that can withstand bird strikes.

航空公司用Carla的数据来研发能够承受飞鸟撞击的飞机。

There are three basic ways that airports try to lower the possibility of bird strikes.

机场有三种基本方法来降低鸟撞的可能性。

Who cares about calling balls and strikes when you're the target of a bird's strike?

当你是鸟击的目标时，谁还在乎击球和球的好坏呢？

Less than a minute into the flight, the pilot reported a double bird strike.

飞机起飞还不到一分钟，飞行员就报告双引擎被鸟撞击。

Birds have always been a problem for airplanes, but now the problem of " bird strikes" is getting worse.

对于飞机，鸟类一直是一个问题，但现在“鸟撞”的问题越来越严重。

But perhaps the most famous incident of a bird strike on an airplane was back in 2009.

然而，恐怕最著名的鸟撞飞机事件应该要追溯到2009年。

So what makes bird strikes so damaging and what can we do to stop them?

是什么造成鸟类撞机事件损失如此严重呢，人类又能做什么来避免鸟撞飞机事件呢？

Between 2008 and 2015, the International Civil Aviation Organization said there were almost 98,000 bird strikes reported in 105 countries.

国际民用航空组织表示，在2008年至2015年间，105个国家报告发生了近9.8万起鸟撞事件。

There was a contributing up to 315 birds strikes on airplanes there per year.

每年有高达315次鸟撞飞机的事件。

Whenever a bird strikes a plane in the US, samples of it are sent to Carla Dove, in vertebrate zoology.

在美国，每当一只鸟撞上飞机，其样品就会被送给脊椎动物学部的Carla Dove。

All kinds of passerines are involved in bird strikes.

各种各样的雀形目鸟类都参与了鸟击。

Most birds strikes on airplanes occur during takeoff or landing at lower altitudes where birds are more common to be.

鸟类撞机事件大多发生在飞机在低海拔地区起飞或降落过程中，在该区域鸟类频繁出没。

We have somewhere around 500 different species of birds have been involved in bird strikes.

我们有大约 500 种不同的鸟类参与了鸟击事件。

One day, maybe, we'll find some way to avoid bird strikes altogether.

也许有一天，我们会找到一些方法来完全避免鸟击。

Worldwide it's believed that bird strikes cause about $1.2 billion of damage, more than the price of two brand new airbus A380-800s.

放眼全球，鸟撞飞机事件的损失约为十二亿美元，远高于两架全新空客 A380-800s 的价格。

A more humane method of avoiding birds strikes though has been the recent development of avian radar, which is surprisingly powerful.

近年，为避免鸟撞飞机事件，人们开发了较人性的探鸟雷达来驱鸟，这一举措效果显著。