article_snippet.sent: Covering aircraft in blue lights, and only turning scientists at Purdue University in Indiana on when beginning to take off, could help stop birds colliding with aircraft.
article_snippet.sent: scientists at Purdue University in Indiana were investigating how to reduce bird to aircraft collisions by keeping birds away from planes (stock image shown).
article_snippet.sent: Study, by scientists at  Purdue University in Indiana in Indiana and the National Wildlife Research Centre in Ohio, was published in The Condor: Ornithological Applications.
article_snippet.sent: scientists at Purdue University in Indiana and the National Wildlife Research Centre in Ohio were seeking to find a solution to the problem of birds colliding with aircraft, which causes £480 million ($700 million) worth of damage in the US alone.
article_snippet.sent: In experiments, they studied how flocks of cowbirds responded to model aircraft.
article_snippet.sent: In the experiments, the researchers studied how flocks of cowbirds (stock image shown) responded to model aircraft. 
article_snippet.sent: the researchers were seeking to find a solution to the problem of birds colliding with aircraft, which causes £480 million ($700 million) worth of damage in the US alone .
highlights_snippet.sent: scientists at Purdue University in Indiana were investigating how to reduce bird to aircraft collisions .
  