What is the correct thing to do if birds land on your ship?

[Tugboater203]

If I was smort, I would have put a link to the thread Birdsonboats started.

Have you had birds land on your vessel while offshore?

Hi everyone, I’m an ornithologist who’s currently looking into the role that vessels play for the displacement of birds. It’s a well-known fact among ornithologists that exhausted birds take breaks on vessels, sometimes leading to their displacement over thousands of kilometers, occasionally even crossing entire oceans, but the extent of this is not known. I hope to start some kind of citizen science project with seafarers. Therefore, I am looking here for any seafarers A) who have stories a…