Red-winged blackbird

The FAA database contains 885 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Red-winged blackbird across 180 airports; damage was indicated in 0.7% 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 reports8851990–export

Airports represented180distinct airport IDs

Damage indicated0.7%of filed reports

Engine ingestion2.0%of filed reports

Damage-indicated reports6FAA report field

Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level

Effect on flight19effect supplied

Reported cost$353Kinflation-adjusted supplied values

02 / YEAR LOG

Red-winged blackbird: 2016–2025 reporting record

Red-winged blackbird has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 524 filed reports in the annual series.

201646 · 0.0% damage

201743 · 0.0% damage

201851 · 0.0% damage

201947 · 0.0% damage

202047 · 0.0% damage

202155 · 1.8% damage

202255 · 0.0% damage

202365 · 1.5% damage

202457 · 0.0% damage

202558 · 0.0% damage

03 / SEASON

Red-winged blackbird: 2021–2025 by month

Red-winged blackbird appears in 290 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan13

Feb22

Mar17

Apr25

May54

Jun52

Jul27

Aug7

Sep5

Oct14

Nov40

Dec14

04 / AIRPORT RECORDS

Red-winged blackbird: published airport records

Red-winged blackbird has 28 published airport combinations representing 567 filed reports that met the publication threshold.