FAA PUBLIC EXPORT · 355,556 REPORTSVOLUNTARY REPORTING · NOT A RISK SCORESNAPSHOT 16 SEP 2026
RUNWAYWILDLIFETHE REPORTED STRIKE RECORD
FAA SPECIES N5122PUBLIC FAA RECORD

WILDLIFE PROFILE

Pacific golden-plover

The FAA database contains 1,591 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Pacific golden-plover across 25 airports; damage was indicated in 0.9% and engine ingestion in 1.4%. These are report-level shares, not flight probabilities.

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

Filed reports1,5911990–export
Airports represented25distinct airport IDs
Damage indicated0.9%of filed reports
Engine ingestion1.4%of filed reports
Damage-indicated reports15FAA report field
Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level
Effect on flight20effect supplied
Reported cost$452Kinflation-adjusted supplied values
02 / YEAR LOG

Pacific golden-plover: 2016–2025 reporting record

Pacific golden-plover has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 639 filed reports in the annual series.

201665 · 1.5% damage
201751 · 2.0% damage
201855 · 1.8% damage
201985 · 0.0% damage
202099 · 0.0% damage
202172 · 0.0% damage
202223 · 0.0% damage
202370 · 0.0% damage
202462 · 3.2% damage
202557 · 1.8% damage
03 / SEASON

Pacific golden-plover: 2021–2025 by month

Pacific golden-plover appears in 284 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan26
Feb8
Mar21
Apr12
May4
Jun0
Jul1
Aug6
Sep29
Oct106
Nov40
Dec31