> I suggest that if you care about birds, with respect to drones, then you should become active in drone communities to determine the effects that drones have o

> I suggest that if you care about birds, with respect to drones, then you should become active in drone communities to determine the effects that drones have on birds. ... Without meaning to be snarky, what is your intent in this comment? I cant move the mountain that is US domestic policy from here, which will inevitably infect my country -- where it turns out I'm equally unable to effect policy (yes, I do vote, I have campaigned, things get pushed through anyway). It just reads as "Well if you care so much about birds, why dont you get into drones", which feels almost like a non sequitur. The birds were here before me, and before the drones. I cant imagine there are any studies done on the wide spread integration of birds and drones, we wont get any until after we have hundreds of drones in the air at one time. Then we'll be treated to repeated NYT articles labeled "Where have all the birds gone?", discovering that, in fact birds were ok with 1 drone on the weekend but have suddenly freaked out when there are 100s/km^3 of airspace. I sometimes see one or two drone pilots in summer, but largely they're non-existent here which might be the cause of some of my distaste for the idea of their proliferation. When they're here, they're loud and annoying (and scare my dog!). Probably I'm just being a curmudgeon.