A plan to remove trees containing the nests of several endangered bald eagles threatening the safety of pilots and passengers at a Central Florida airport has raised some concerns with officials at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey.

Bald eagles can often be seen swooping across runways at the Orlando-Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Fla. Several of the birds and their babies have nests in trees on the airport's 2,000 acres of property.

The Orlando-Sanford International Airport now claims that the birds are putting passengers aboard aircraft at risk.

"They are not a hazard to the airport, they are a hazard to the people flying into and out of the airport," Orlando Sanford International Airport spokesman Larry Dale said. "The pilot up here hit an eagle. It damaged his aircraft and he had to make an emergency landing, but it killed the eagle. The eagle is dead."

The use of fireworks and sirens to scare the eagles away did not work, according to officials. So, the government has given permission to cut down trees containing nests near the runways.

Environmentalists wonder what will happen to the baby eagles in the nests, the report said.

Audubon Center for Birds of Prey spokeswoman Dianna Flint said she certainly does not agree with the airport's decision, according to Local 6's Jessica Sanchez.

"If you cut the tree down with the babies in it, it would not be a pretty thing," Flint said. "We (are going to) work really hard to find a foster nest, a nest that has maybe one baby in it but the parents are good, reliable parents."

An experienced climber will scale the trees this month and gather the baby eagles from surrounding nests and hope they are old enough to survive relocation, according to the report.

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