I've heard complaints about their increasing hobby use in the USA from people
on the naturerecordists list, due to the amount of noise they make, so I assume
they're noisy enough to scare birds.
I've occasionally wondered if it would be practical to mount a camera on a
remote control boat or vehicle have it approach birds like crakes in swamps or
waders on mudflats at extremely low speed.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of
> Chris Sanderson
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2012 12:37 PM
> To: Carl Clifford
> Cc: Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Drones & birding
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> No direct experience, but I know from disturbance monitoring
> for shorebirds that I've done in the past that shorebirds
> hate helicopters. Pretty sure even a "toy" one woud cause
> large amounts of disturbance. Also I've been told that bird
> strikes on remote control aircraft can be fatal to birds like
> eagles, so it's possibly also dangerous for the birds. These
> are gut reactions though, not based on any actual
> observations of this tech in use.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Carl Clifford
> <>wrote:
>
> > Dear B-A,
> >
> > Has anyone on the list had any experience using camera equipped
> > quadricopter style drones for birding? They seem to have
> the potential
> > to be a useful tool for observing waders and the like.
> >
> > I would be interested in hearing of anyones experiences.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carl Clifford
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