FAA PUBLIC EXPORT · 355,556 REPORTSVOLUNTARY REPORTING · NOT A RISK SCORESNAPSHOT 16 SEP 2026
RUNWAYWILDLIFETHE REPORTED STRIKE RECORD
FAA SPECIES N51PUBLIC FAA RECORD

WILDLIFE PROFILE

Plovers

The FAA database contains 101 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Plovers across 55 airports; damage was indicated in 2.0% and engine ingestion in 2.0%. These are report-level shares, not flight probabilities.

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

Filed reports1011990–export
Airports represented55distinct airport IDs
Damage indicated2.0%of filed reports
Engine ingestion2.0%of filed reports
Damage-indicated reports2FAA report field
Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level
Effect on flight3effect supplied
Reported cost$5Kinflation-adjusted supplied values
02 / YEAR LOG

Plovers: 2016–2025 reporting record

Plovers has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 52 filed reports in the annual series.

20166 · 0.0% damage
20178 · 0.0% damage
20184 · 0.0% damage
20198 · 0.0% damage
20204 · 0.0% damage
20213 · 0.0% damage
20224 · 0.0% damage
20238 · 0.0% damage
20244 · 0.0% damage
20253 · 0.0% damage
03 / SEASON

Plovers: 2021–2025 by month

Plovers appears in 22 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan0
Feb1
Mar1
Apr1
May1
Jun0
Jul5
Aug3
Sep4
Oct5
Nov0
Dec1
04 / AIRPORT RECORDS

Plovers: published airport records

Plovers has 3 published airport combinations representing 34 filed reports that met the publication threshold.