Speaking of drones -----

[I @ M]

or how to do a bit of bird photography and aerial shots. :D

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-02/eagles-vs-drones-dutch-police-train-birds-to-take-down-uavs/7132096

[ameerat42]

Looks like a Drone-go species:p

[danny]

I read this also this morning and had a good laugh.

[Trobdang]

I can just see it now, some eagles nest high up in the mountains with all the missing drones in it.......

[ricktas]

And here was me thinking I was going to get a link to a Donald Trump campaign speech. Nothing more droning exists:D

[Mark L]

So it's trained to get white things in the sky. How would they train it to get black drones and red drones and different shaped drones?
Drones have become a slight problem around fires that need aircraft. Problem with sending an eagle to get the drone is it would go get food escaping the fire first (yep, they do that. Eagles see smoke and turn up.:))
Great looking bird and interesting idea.

[jev]

The example mentioned in several interviews include a guy that flew a drone in an area where the trauma helicopter was supposed to land. The question is: is the bird there before the heli?

Sometimes things don't really go as planned. Check out the second movie on this page => http://nos.nl/artikel/2084071-hoe-voorkom-je-aanslagen-met-drones-met-een-roofvogel.html
The bird is supposed to catch the drone and bring it to the birdhandler. It crashes instead :lol:

[Mark L]

It crashes instead :lol:
You're not looking at it from the birds POV.
:lol: should be :eek::(