Bold Eagles: Angry Birds Are Ripping $80,000 Drones Out of the Sky

Australia’s fiercely territorial wedge-tailed eagle, known to eat kangaroos, uses sharp talons, aerial combat skills to take out pricey flying machines. ‘It ended up being a pile of splinters.’

-- WSJ, --September 29, 2017

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SYDNEY— Daniel Parfitt thought he’d found the perfect drone for a two-day mapping job in a remote patch of the Australian outback. The roughly $80,000 machine had a wingspan of 7 feet and resembled a stealth bomber. There was just one problem. His machine raised the hackles of one prominent local resident: a wedge-tailed eagle. -- More...

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