Hi Hendrik, very cool photographs, looks like your drone is a great tool for recording these images. Is there a discussion you’d like to start here in addition to showing the photographs? Are there any specific purposes you’re hoping to use the drone for?
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A few references to prime the thread:
- Bollard et al., 2022: Drone Technology for Monitoring Protected Areas in Remote and Fragile Environments
- Kuhlmann et al., 2022: Miniaturization eliminates detectable impacts of drones on bat activity
- Lenzi et al., 2022: Feral Horses and Bison at Theodore Roosevelt National Park (North Dakota, United States) Exhibit Shifts in Behaviors during Drone Flights
- Mesquita et al., 2022: Terrestrial Megafauna Response to Drone Noise Levels in Ex Situ Areas
- Mo & Bonatakis, 2021: Approaching wildlife with drones: using scientific literature to identify factors to consider for minimising disturbance
- Mo & Bonatakis, 2022: An examination of trends in the growing scientific literature on approaching wildlife with drones
- Rebolo-Ifrán et al., 2019: Drones as a Threat to Wildlife: YouTube Complements Science in Providing Evidence about Their Effect
- Wallace et al., 2017: Keeping pace with technology: drones, disturbance and policy deficiency
- Weston et al., 2020: Escape responses of terrestrial and aquatic birds to drones: Towards a code of practice to minimize disturbance
- Position statement by the Wild Sheep Foundation, 2021: Effects of Recreational and Commercial Use of Drones on Wild Sheep
…and references therein.
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Ooh, I imagine drones could be great for photographing bird’s nests, beehives, etc., but they are very loud and use of them should be limited to the seemingly magical quiet ones.
Flying drones near coastal bird colonies is actually illegal in the United States because of the risk of predation on nests when the parents have left and the risk of abandonment of the whole colony. Drones can be useful for nature projects but consider the significant disturbance factor.
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Drones are used to count ** coastal bird colonies** in the Netherlands and to find deer before the farmer goes to work.
https://www.sovon.nl/onderzoek/methoden-en-technieken/monitoren-met-drones
I’m not much for photographing animals with drones, but I read a while back about botanists in Hawaii using drones to photograph rare plants on cliff faces.
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I’m unlisting this topic, I don’t see any attempt to start a discussion and I’m not sure how it’s a fit for the Educators category.
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Drones are an a exalent way to obsurve nature and take pictures. And discuss the advantages and disadvantages of drones. What to consider: which drones are best suited for nature photography, distances to which animal species, and so on. Everything else that can be discussed about drones and nature.
(By the way:i use a dji mini pro 4 82 decibel and 4k quality)
Yes about the answer from inaturalist support thingy
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The mail i got
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iNaturalist is not a game, we don’t have “players”. We’ve made a lot of decision to specifically not add things like badges, etc, to iNaturalist because it incentivizes bad behavior like reducing data quality and perhaps bother organisms that shouldn’t be bothered. Please don’t treat iNaturalist as a game. We also don’t really want drone shots on iNaturalist, I’m sorry. iNaturalist is about your personal connection with nature, and drones don’t really provide that
- here is an example of a stork that was too far away for the mobile phone. Also think of larger bodies of water and bays, inhospitable areas and dangerous rock formations that you cannot reach on foot. I dont have think about these things you have to start thinking is just a matter of time people are gona using drones of observation that allready happing better jump now in to it
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You greatly underestimate the potential of drones and the technology as an extension of nature observation. I told you to investigate the possibilities, the advantages and disadvantages, and the pace at which drones can already be used. You underestimated this, and moreover, you haven’t researched and are apparently unaware of the technology that is out there and is not a game: there are already silent drones on the market, but that doesn’t mean anything. These days, there are hikers who talk about and watch animals, mopeds that crackle, cars that growl. I’m sorry you didn’t read my message seriously, but with a bleary eye. and take the easy way out by saying that I am disturbing nature which you don’t really know anything about to judge what i do out there. You have not seen it realy.
Consider the decibel level: the DJI Mini Pro 4 is 82 dB, which means I have to keep my distance from people talking. With a buzzard, you only have to turn your eyes and head toward the bird, and it flies away, even from a distance.
I’m asking you to reconsider your opinion and answer. Don’t consider drones a game. Drones are already being used on job’s as a serious candidate on the marked (the DJI Mini 4 Pro is a small drone and weighs 249 grams). It’s an affordable professional drone. Recently, I had someone who wanted to observe carp spawning and rescue operations, to name just a few. Think of jobs like volunteer work, real estate, observation, photography/videography, inspection, search and rescue, cinematography, mapping, and 360-degree photography/mapping. I hope you to look more seriously into the possibility and dont turn your head . More expensive drones can cost from €120,000 to mine, €1200. It’s wise to research which drones, with which signal and large zoom, they recommend for drone users.
The DJI Mini Pro is an autonomous drone with 4K quality and zoom capabilities. Remember, regarding games, animals play games in nature, with which they learn to catch their prey very skillfully and precisely, or maintain their skills. From a young age, I’ve been a nature lover and have great respect for creation; after all, it’s part of God’s creation. And if you look at me insultingly and disrespectfully, I assume you didn’t mean that that way ?
Yes the discusing also by giving thinking about the salution about these things of what are and cant do things. Also what drone what decibel my (dji mini 4 drone 4k quality with zoom capability and weighs 249 grams and falls underout the rules of the law as a toy, but it is counted a professional drone: gives a sound of db82 its like bit someting like someone talks so keep distacne like you do with you mobile. De the drone gives a buzzing contuis gradually with easy sound not to talk myself out of it, but that is what it is.
Only a few dum people do so there a lot more smart people who du so. Keeping to that rule. Its not smart to keep the rules or law always to think out of the box and know that in eares that are allouwd for drones you simply dont scare the animail neither. Just can fly there does you can do just as pleased. People dont think of that its better to fly in aera that counted as It’s forbidden to disturb an fly with youre sens and a sound mind with love and respect ans skill. But you’re disturbing everything in a place where is by law counted as legal. Animals don’t have territorial boundaries; we humans do. Of course, reason and insight and wisdom are more important, as is love for people and nature.
Remember that traffic also disturb everything you hear nobuddy talk about, also to considder​:thinking:
But I do see discussion about the ethics of drones later on.
I wanted a undersanding for drone use it hase great featurers well used. We talk about that an the do and dont’s . Nature rules, distace you keep on how the dicibel drone makes or other stuff that can happen like a hawk atackts drone if its flying away ( like a cat it ackt on movents) not when you hover or sneak up to it but the thats makes you come verry slowly i think becose it has to get used to the humming sound( be real they are used with cars moppeds and trains walkingtalking people.
This also a good idea i think of it to