This is the best summary I could come up with:

Pilot Troy McCormick told KCAU-TV that he’s lucky he wasn’t hurt worse on Nov. 23 when what he believed was a duck came crashing through the windshield.

He was en route to Storm Lake Hospital to pick up a patient.

“The bird came through the windscreen and hit me right in the side of the head here, ‘boom,’ and then exploded all over in the inside of the aircraft.”

McCormick, covered in blood and feathers, was able to divert to Storm Lake Airport and land, though he remains fuzzy about how that happened.

I remembered (a fellow crew member) talking to me a little bit, telling me what we needed to do, and we did that.

We have had some hit glass, different parts of the aircraft, and have not had any issues, but to actually come through the windscreen, never experienced that.”

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That’s the kind of thing that would put me off flying forever.