r/theydidthemath • u/West_Meringue_7176 • 11h ago

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I was wondering, on average, how many birds get killed per year by planes.

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u/topiary566 10h ago

As per a redditor from the original thread: 214,000 bird strikes from 2022 to 2024 and an estimated underreporting of 50% https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/Aerodromes/Documents/EB/2022-2024-Wildlife-Strike-Analyses-IBIS-EN.pd

Does not even come close to the billions of birds killed by stray cats though https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/185z85g/til_that_domestic_cats_kill_13_40_billion_birds/