Birds, animals on the tarmac at LAX

Red-tailed hawks, kestrels and peregrine falcons can be seen all over landscapes of Southern California as magnificent winged-creatures that co-exist with humans, sometimes seen as black shadows hovering over freeway overpasses or peering down rocky mountainsides.
To LAX, they seem to be considered deadly pests that can cause dangerous conditions for airliners, sometimes called "bullets with wings."
The LA Times recently reported how the rare birds are captured or sometimes scared away from the airport by a federal government mandated program since the 1990s. More than 940 animal strikes involving commercial aircraft were reported in the last decade, the Times reports. About 4 percent of the collisions caused substantial damage to engines, wings and fuselages.
Birds were reportedly the cause of the U.S. Airways Flight out of LaGuardia that crashed, but successfully landed into the Hudson River in January.
Above is a picture I took a couple years ago of a Cooper's Hawk in Bolsa Chica.