About the Authors

Alan P. N. House

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

alan.house@ecoaus.com.au

Affiliation Eco Logical Australia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Jackson G. Ring

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Operations Section, Brisbane Airport Corporation, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phillip P. Shaw

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecosure Pty Ltd, Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

This work was commissioned and funded in its entirety by Brisbane Airport Corporation (JGR is a paid employee of BAC) to address a serious threat to aviation safety at the airport. No other sources of funding were received by the project team. BAC provided salaries to JGR, APNH and PPS. Ecosure (PPS) and Eco Logical Australia (APNH) (both consultancies) were engaged to provide professional ecological advice and devise and run a research program. Qantas (MJH is a paid employee of Qantas) made significant in-kind (but not financial) contributions to the project through professional advice and access to materials and 3D-printing facilities. There are no financial competing interests beyond these relationships. As the funder of the work, BAC (through JGR) provided access to the airport to conduct the experiment, co-designed the experiment and assisted in monitoring. All analysis and interpretation was done by Alan House. This does not alter our adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.