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Drones & birding

To: 'Chris Sanderson' <>, 'Carl Clifford' <>
Subject: Drones & birding
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:03:17 +1100
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-----
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>  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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