As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Monday 13 October 2014

Hawk engages drone in aerial combat and wins [Video]


By Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times | October 11, 9:38 AM

Nature still has an edge over technology as a hawk wins over a drone in aerial combat.

In the captured video, neither the hawk nor the drone suffered any damage, but the hawk did show who was truly king of the skies.

Christoper Schmidt, a software developer and resident of Cambridgeport in Cambridge, Mass. took his quadcopter out to Magazine Beach to take a video of the changing color of the tree foliage.

Schmidt has been flying the device about twice a week since he purchased it half a year ago, creating and uploading several videos on his page in YouTube. He is able to take the videos using a GoPro camera that he installed on the drone's frame.

Whenever Schmidt flies his quadcopter, he says that the drone often encounters a few birds but passes by without any incident.

However, on the day that the video was taken, Schmidt saw that a hawk was in the area where his drone was flying in.


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