This red-tailed hawk attacking a quadcopter highlights a potential - TopicsExpress



          

This red-tailed hawk attacking a quadcopter highlights a potential problem of drone delivery start-ups who are planning on getting packages or pizza to people via drone: birds of prey aren’t keen to share their airspace. As avian expert Nick Lund writes for Slate: The difference for Amazons drones is that the birds will be chasing them. Unseen to us, the skies are checkered with fiercely defended bird territories. Open-country raptors - hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, etc. - dont take kindly to interlopers on their hunting grounds, and frequently chase, dive-bomb, and take talons to intruders. The confrontations can be even more violent during nesting season when vulnerable chicks are potential prey.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 05:55:04 +0000

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