A silhouette of a plane flying through a flock of birds against an orange sky at sunset. Two years after he helped invent the airplane, Orville Wright became the first person to hit an animal with a ...

Aside from birds, hundreds of other types of animals are struck annually, though these incidents rarely cause human injury or death.

Stacker examined which animals were most often involved in aircraft strikes over the past three years using data from the Federal Aviation Administration. - BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP // Getty Images ...