By Larry Neumeister
NEW YORK—The operator of New York City’s airports has the legal right to kill migratory birds when necessary to protect planes, a federal appeals court said Jan. 26 as it rejected a challenge from an animal advocacy group.
A snowy owl rests on a branch at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Galloway Township, N.J. Dec. 4, 2013. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says that over the past two weeks five planes at John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty International and LaGuardia airports have been struck by snowy owls. AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Vernon Ogrodnek, File
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