{"id":43043,"date":"2017-06-23T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=30387"},"modified":"2017-06-23T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T12:39:05","slug":"death-from-above-drone-attacking-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/culture\/death-from-above-drone-attacking-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek and Destroy: Eagles exterminate drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eaglefeatureandmain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eaglefeatureandmain.jpg\" alt=\"eaglefeatureandmain\" width=\"720\" height=\"449\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eaglefeatureandmain.jpg 720w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eaglefeatureandmain-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is a bald eagle taking out a drone in mid-flight.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch police have joined forces with Guard From Above, a raptor-training security firm based in The Hague, Netherlands to train bald eagles to rain unholy death upon unwanted drones.<\/p>\n<p>Guard From Above\u2019s chief executive officer Sjoerd Hoogendoorn described the project in a press release as \u201ca low-tech solution for a high-tech problem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff LeBaron,\u00a0the director of the\u00a0National Audubon Society\u2019s\u00a0Christmas Bird Count, a crowdsourced wildlife census that tracks US bird populations, said birds are in many cases demonstrating that they have superior onboard equipment to the drones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I find fascinating is that birds can hit the drone in such a way that they don\u2019t get injured by the rotors,\u201d said LeBaron. \u201cThey seem to be whacking the drone right in the centre so they don\u2019t get hit; they have incredible visual acuity and they can probably actually see the rotors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The drones are often seen as invasive by native birds.\u00a0\u201cThe drones are pretty much the size of a bird of prey, so smaller birds on the ground aren\u2019t likely to mob a bird of prey when it\u2019s flying &#8211; but larger birds are, especially when it\u2019s around their nests,\u201d said LeBaron, who\u2019d seen the behavior in barnacle geese as well as raptors like ospreys. \u201cThe birds of prey are having an aggressive interaction to defend their territory from another bird of prey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even more impressive is how the birds can not only take down the drone, but retrieve it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Witness the aerial carnage in motion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HifO-ebmE1s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eagleduck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eagleduck.jpg\" alt=\"eagleduck\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eagleduck.jpg 600w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/eagleduck-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard (Official Video)\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MZrctLnsF4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is a bald eagle taking out a drone in mid-flight. Dutch police have joined forces with Guard From Above, a raptor-training security firm based in The Hague, Netherlands to train bald eagles to rain unholy death upon unwanted drones. Guard From Above\u2019s chief executive officer Sjoerd Hoogendoorn described the project in a press release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[692,1255,1494,2007,2241,4338],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}