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Birds Have Procedures Too

Avian Mobility, Airport Infrastructure, and Mixed Knowledges

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ID3924870
AuthorsBauer (0000-0001-5760-5965), Susanne Bauer (0000-0001-8382-1653), Nils Güttler, Martina Schlünder (corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume40
Pages260-280
Publication date2025-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOsiris (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/735526
OpenAlexW4411229634
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

This article examines how bird movements take part in shaping both local airport operations and global air traffic infrastructure. Drawing on archival sources, observations, and visual materials, we examine different layers and regimes of knowledge production on avian migration in and around the global air traffic hub Frankfurt Airport, especially in bird strike prevention. By inquiring into the airspace and ground procedures of both birds and human infrastructure (where they overlap in avian habitats and migration routes), we make visible the mixed knowledges at work in emergent fields such as airport ecology, bird strike science, and multilayered surveillance. In doing so, we consider a plurality of mappings and orderings at the airport, as well as ways in which birds have managed to map their own procedures back onto airport operations

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