FlightFinder

FlightFinder Wildlife Strikes API

The Wildlife Strikes API from FlightFinder — 3 operation(s) for wildlife strikes.

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Operations 3

GET /wildlife-strikes FAA wildlife strike database — global aggregates (US-gov public domain) #

GET /wildlife-strikes/airport/{slug} FAA wildlife strikes for one airport #

GET /wildlife-strikes/species/{slug} FAA wildlife strikes for one species #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: FlightFinder Aviation Safety Data Wildlife Strikes API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: 'Read-only JSON API over FlightFinder''s merged aviation-safety corpus: accident narratives aggregated from 120+ official investigation agencies, deduplicated into one occurrence-level dataset with derived family analytics.'
  termsOfService: https://himaxym.com/developers
  contact:
    url: https://himaxym.com/developers
servers:
- url: https://himaxym.com/api/v1/data
security:
- bearerKey: []
tags:
- name: Wildlife Strikes
paths:
  /wildlife-strikes:
    get:
      summary: FAA wildlife strike database — global aggregates (US-gov public domain)
      responses:
        '200':
          description: 'Hub rollups: totals, by-year, top airports/species, and notable strikes with FAA narrative remarks.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                  attribution:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadKey'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Wildlife Strikes
      operationId: getWildlifeStrikes
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /wildlife-strikes/airport/{slug}:
    get:
      summary: FAA wildlife strikes for one airport
      parameters:
      - name: slug
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Airport slug (lowercased ICAO/FAA id, e.g. kden).
        example: kden
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Per-airport totals, top species, and notable strikes.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                  attribution:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadKey'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Wildlife Strikes
      operationId: getWildlifeStrikesAirportBySlug
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /wildlife-strikes/species/{slug}:
    get:
      summary: FAA wildlife strikes for one species
      parameters:
      - name: slug
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Species slug (e.g. mourning-dove).
        example: mourning-dove
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Per-species totals, top airports, and notable strikes.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                  attribution:
                    type: string
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadKey'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Wildlife Strikes
      operationId: getWildlifeStrikesSpeciesBySlug
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  responses:
    BadKey:
      description: Unknown or revoked API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limit exceeded — retry after the Retry-After header (seconds).
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          schema:
            type: integer
          description: Seconds until the quota resets.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: No record matches.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              example: rate_limited
            message:
              type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: API key as a bearer token. On the /keys management routes this is the account JWT instead — the API key itself cannot create or revoke keys.
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: FlightFinder
  source: https://himaxym.com/api/v1/data/openapi.json
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)