Birds vs Drones

Discussions center on birds interacting with drones, including territorial attacks by birds of prey, disorientation from moving propellers, defecating on or befriending them, and debates over bird intelligence, pest status, and related bird deaths.

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SoftTalker Dec 1, 2022 View on HN

The birds are pests too. Well at least the pigeons are.

hackitup7 Mar 20, 2023 View on HN

Ah, that makes sense. I sympathize with the birds on this one.

olyjohn Feb 12, 2025 View on HN

The birds near me either become friends with it, or shit all over it.

anovikov Aug 31, 2022 View on HN

Birds may be badly disoriented when seeing the moving blades close by. Not at all surprised. Their sense of perspective, distance and speed may fail them badly when seeing an object bigger than they were instinctively supposed to ever meet, moving faster and on unusual trajectory.

optimalsolver Jun 18, 2022 View on HN

Do the birds consider this an invasion of their privacy?

csomar Sep 20, 2021 View on HN

Birds of prey are territorial. That drone looks like them and so it's not welcome. They probably messed with it a bit and found that removing the battery kills it. Birds are generally pretty smart, some are self-aware and have high level of intelligence and awareness.

mei0Iesh Aug 30, 2016 View on HN

A bird kills other birds in the nest, then leads humans to annihilate bee nests? This thing is pure evil.

peterburkimsher Mar 14, 2022 View on HN

Let's build a bird modem, and let them join Twitter!It would also be quite fun to make a user interface where a bird could "fly" through Google Street View, and sense the location changing based on an electromagnet instead of the magnetic north pole that they normally use for navigation.Since August 2021, I've been trying to apply UncleBob's advice to "clean as you go" (Scout Rule) and picking up litter while biking to work.<a href="https://w

trompetenaccoun Apr 26, 2022 View on HN

These are put up by birds, it didn't impale itself.

thinkingemote Jun 7, 2021 View on HN

Perhaps the bird copied the behaviour of the human?