sUAS Help Keep Birds From Airports?

[jnmeade]

Has anyone heard of how birds interact with sUAS? I was wondering if airports with a bad bird population could use sUAS, under appropriate control, of course, to keep birds from landing or "flocking around" the airport? Make it an undesirable habitat.

Buzzing the birds. Probably get bad press even if it was effective.

One sees plans to use sUAS for animal observation but I haven't seen anything on using them for animal behavior modification.

 

[petrolero]

Solution:

 

[steingar]

Only thing I ever heard of that successfully gets birds away from airports was this:

 

[timrb]

I think it's easier just to be very, very polite and let someone else take off ahead of you.

Tim

 

[JimNtexas]

Solution:

At RAF Upper Heyford in the 80s and early 90s we had a contract falconer who worked full time at the airport. There are worse solutions to bird issues.