Hi All,
I guess the usefulness of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Civil Aviation Safety
Authority parlance for what we're talking about), depends, like anything, on
your goal. If you wanted to count waders at, say, high tide roosts, I cannot
imagine a better, less disturbing way than using a UAV.
Cheers,
Eric Vanderduys
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-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Jeremy O'Wheel
Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2012 2:25 PM
To: Peter Madvig
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: Drones & birding
I wonder if some kind of remote controlled boat might be better for waders.
Especially if you had something with a reasonably small motor, ensuring that
it was both quiet and slow. You could even disguise it as a duck.
Jeremy
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Peter Madvig <> wrote:
> I remember a doco - possibly an Attenborough narated one, where a
> motorised/mobile, artificial elephant dropping, was used to get close
> up shots....it worked :-) Cheers, Peter Madvig
>
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