In collaboration with FRAPORT, NCC is undertaking ornithological monitoring at 14 airports managed by the company in Greece. This monitoring involves recording bird populations in the wider airport area, monitoring bird attraction points in relation to flight safety, and managing the risk of collusions of birds with airplanes. Also large bird colonies (herons, gulls, terns) around the airports are being monitored using modern methods. At the same time, for the first time in Greece, GSM/GPS transmitters were placed on Yellow-legged gulls in order to accurately record their daily movements and flight heights.

Since 2025, in collaboration with ENVECO, NCC is implementing the DAIK program for recording birdlife, assessing the risk of bird collisions with aircraft, and managing this risk, based on international best practices and standards. NCC is collaborating on this project with the scientific team of MFIK and foreign experts. As part of the project, bird populations are recorded from observation points and in areas that attract birds. At the same time, the most extensive telemetry program for vultures ever conducted in our country is underway, with the placement of >40 GSP/GPS transmitters on vultures in the wider region. This action will interact with the application of a predictive spatial atmospheric model for the distribution and magnitude of upward thermal currents (topographic and orographic), implemented by the NCC in collaboration with specialist researchers from the National Observatory. The combination of these two actions will enable accurate prediction of the movements of vultures, based on seasonal and daily atmospheric conditions, as well as the ecological parameters that determine the movements of this numerous and large species, so that specific measures can be proposed to mitigate the risk of collision. With this innovative and original approach particularly significant results in terms of collision risk management can be expected.

In the context of the above projects and earlier related programs, NCC has acquired considerable expertise in the field of recording and managing the risk of bird collision with aircraft. Since 2025, on the initiative of FRAPORT, NCC has been invited to join the National Committee for the Prevention of Bird Collision with Aircraft.