Just days after a deadly helicopter crash in New York, there is another scare Monday night in Southern Nevada. A tourist helicopter had to make an emergency landing after a mid-air collision with a bird near Lake Mead.

News 3's Steve Crupi reports that even though this was just a bird, the impact was quite serious; a hole the size of a volleyball was blown right through the windshield.

It happened as the tour chopper headed out from Las Vegas en route to the Grand Canyon.

Feathers are still visible around the smashed window. And inside the chopper, splattered blood illustrates just how intense and frightening the mid-air impact must have been.

"It hit on the corner side of the window," explains Zachary Blackwood, Game Warden. "Everybody on board is very lucky."

He watched the chopper as it came down for an emergency landing, with everyone - including the pilot - stepping out alive.

"He stepped out, glass fell out, he was bloody," Blackwood continues.

Also onboard were six tourists from London.

Steve Crupi: Was the blood from the pilot or the bird? 

Blackwood: Most of it was from the bird.

Steve Crupi: Any idea what type of bird? 

Blackwood: Turns out it was not a goose, it was a cormorant.

Despite the chaos of what was happening onboard, the pilot managed to perfectly land the helicopter on a narrow little service road. He was treated for cuts and bruises, and was released just a few hours after the emergency landing.

The bird that hit the helicopter weighed an estimated 10 pounds; if it had hit the window straight on, the damage could have been far more catastrophic.

Over the weekend, several people were killed when a helicopter collided with a small plane over New York's Hudson River.