According to the airport’s own records, wildlife control contractors killed over 1,600 protected birds at JFK over the past five years. In order to ensure the safety of passengers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey does have permission to shoot birds that interfere with flight patterns, but only seagulls, geese and mourning doves. Despite that limitation, documents show that 1,628 protected species such as snow egrets, red-winged blackbirds and American kestrels were also killed from 2009 to 2013 near the JFK runway.
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