{"id":98881131,"date":"2011-04-29T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/jfk-airport-to-dismiss-resident-falconers\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:52:19","slug":"jfk-airport-to-dismiss-resident-falconers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/jfk-airport-to-dismiss-resident-falconers\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK Airport to Dismiss Resident Falconers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 years, JFK Airport will soon say goodbye to its resident falconers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For a decade and a half the trainers and their birds patrolled the runways, warding off smaller birds that could potentially enter the flight paths of large aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made to let the falconers go after deep budget cuts were recently introduced at JFK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The responsibility of keeping one of the country\u2019s busiest airports bird-free will now lie with the US Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That decision has some animal rights groups up in arms. The DOA deals with problematic birds with controlled shoots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between 2000 and 2008, birds were to blame for 30 accidents at JFK, more than at any other airport in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704071704576277213052018084.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 years, JFK Airport will soon say goodbye to its resident falconers. &nbsp; For a decade and a half the trainers and their birds patrolled the runways, warding off smaller birds that could potentially enter the flight paths of large aircraft. &nbsp; The decision was made to let the falconers go after deep budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897484,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881131\/revisions\/98897484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}