Bird strikes are a scary encounter.
Several of our CG helos have had them with either seagulls or geese.
The force of them is so great that it can crack the front windscreen.
Any bird strike calls for an immediate grounding at the nearest safe point of land.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!