Brown-headed cowbird

The FAA database contains 535 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Brown-headed cowbird across 121 airports; damage was indicated in 0.7% and engine ingestion in 2.2%. These are report-level shares, not flight probabilities.

Source: FAA National Wildlife Strike Database · Named-subject cohort · Snapshot September 16, 2026

Filed reports5351990–export

Airports represented121distinct airport IDs

Damage indicated0.7%of filed reports

Engine ingestion2.2%of filed reports

Damage-indicated reports4FAA report field

Serious / destroyed1FAA S or D level

Effect on flight8effect supplied

Reported cost$8Kinflation-adjusted supplied values

02 / YEAR LOG

Brown-headed cowbird: 2016–2025 reporting record

Brown-headed cowbird has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 300 filed reports in the annual series.

201629 · 0.0% damage

201727 · 0.0% damage

201827 · 0.0% damage

201933 · 0.0% damage

202023 · 0.0% damage

202121 · 0.0% damage

202250 · 0.0% damage

202326 · 0.0% damage

202432 · 0.0% damage

202532 · 3.1% damage

03 / SEASON

Brown-headed cowbird: 2021–2025 by month

Brown-headed cowbird appears in 161 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan3

Feb2

Mar10

Apr9

May4

Jun17

Jul46

Aug33

Sep19

Oct9

Nov7

Dec2

04 / AIRPORT RECORDS

Brown-headed cowbird: published airport records

Brown-headed cowbird has 14 published airport combinations representing 308 filed reports that met the publication threshold.