Bird-chasing dog back at airport after surgery

Augusta Regional Airport's (in the US state of Georgia) hairiest employee is back at work. Mayday, the border collie who chases potentially hazardous flocks of egrets and starlings from the fields around the airport's runways, had a benign tumor removed from her leg in January. Her handler, Tina Rhodes, said the 11-year-old dog has been resting and working part-time as she recovers from the surgery.

Mayday helps keep birds from getting in the way of arriving and departing airplanes at the airport. Birds can cause power failure if they fly into the engine of the plane.

A US Airways flight crash landed in the Hudson River on January 15 after hitting a flock of birds following takeoff from LaGuardia Airport.