Watch as this angry hawk takes out a quadcopter drone in mid-air

[Shawn Knight]

It was a seemingly normal Wednesday for YouTuber Christopher Schmidt. He was out flying his Phantom FC40 quadcopter at Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when a hawk decided he wasn’t too thrilled with the drone’s presence.

As the footage from the drone-mounted GoPro Hero 3+ Black clearly shows, the hawk swoops in for the kill and sent the aircraft plummeting to the ground.

Schmidt notes that once he saw the hawk approach, he throttled down the props on the drone to try and minimize any harm to the bird. As far as he could tell, the hawk was unscathed (as was the drone).

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[stewi0001]

Makes me want to build a quad copter suit for my cat

 

[yRaz]

Makes me want to build a quad copter suit for my cat

 

[psycros]

Yet another reason to outlaw these stupid things. I'd sooner believe that private citizens need machine guns than flying camcorders.

 

[stewi0001]

Makes me want to build a quad copter suit for my cat

I can't stop laughing XD thanks for posting this!

 

[yRaz]

Yet another reason to outlaw these stupid things. I'd sooner believe that private citizens need machine guns than flying camcorders.

Do you think it should be legal for stewi0001 to attach a camcorder to his flying cat?

 

[Trillionsin]

Makes me want to build a quad copter suit for my cat

I can't stop laughing XD thanks for posting this!

oh dont play coy, you. *pinches cheek*

 

[Trillionsin]

Yet another reason to outlaw these stupid things. I'd sooner believe that private citizens need machine guns than flying camcorders.

Do you think it should be legal for stewi0001 to attach a camcorder to his flying cat?

As long as the cat in question is a munchkin cat, that way he doesnt jump on my counters.

 

[yRaz]

As long as the cat in question is a munchkin cat, that way he doesnt jump on my counters.

That's what my latest product, the tabby taser is for! It's a collar you give your cat and whenever they act up you can give them a gentle shock of about 50,000 volts. It even features wireless charging so you'll never have to change the battery!

 

[Guest]

I don't see an angry hawk here! I just see perfection of nature protecting it's territory whilst doing humanity a great service. Job well done my feathered friend!

The NSA, Amazon, Google etc are probably already commissioning some arms company to produce "air to hawk" missiles!

 

[Per Hansson]

Looks to me like the hawk was trying to land, maybe the copter looked very much like a stationary object?

 

[bexwhitt]

Yet another reason to outlaw these stupid things. I'd sooner believe that private citizens need machine guns than flying camcorders.

get off my lawn!!!!!

 

[WangDangDoodle]

Makes me want to build a quad copter suit for my cat

HAHAHAAAAH! Yeah, teach that stupid bird a lesson!

 

[stewi0001]

Looks to me like the hawk was trying to land, maybe the copter looked very much like a stationary object?

that's also how they look when they are catching prey, but you could be right.

 

[JakeT]

I think it was trying to catch it to eat it. It may look like small game for them. The bird looked fairly big compared to a Phantom2.

 

[noel24]

'Merica!

 

[cliffordcooley]

Looks to me like the hawk was trying to land, maybe the copter looked very much like a stationary object?

That does make you wonder! And I agree that the bird did not look to be angry and attacking. Have you ever seen a bird attack another bird? They don't get away easily, and they try real hard. This quad-chopper just stops and doesn't try to evade. Yet the bird disappears afterward.

 

[Kibaruk]

'Merica!

It's 'Murica! Learn your meme son.

This was cool though

 

[Nobina]

Go ahead make a quadcopter for your cats so hawks can kill them.

 

[wiyosaya]

I don't see an angry hawk here! I just see perfection of nature protecting it's territory whilst doing humanity a great service. Job well done my feathered friend!

The NSA, Amazon, Google etc are probably already commissioning some arms company to produce "air to hawk" missiles!

Good eyes, mate.

In the US where Raptors are federally protected, any such attempt at shooting raptors, or other protected birds, out of the sky will be met with long, federal prison sentences.

I'll speculate that if such things become more ubiquitous, it won't only be hawks chasing these things out of their territory, it will be birds like red-wing blackbirds and other smaller birds that commonly chase bigger birds like hawks out of their territory. These things will be prime targets for birds, and there will probably be ignorant users of these things that will start a campaign to eliminate all birds.

It is too bad the hawk left the quadra copter intact, IMHO.

 

[wiyosaya]

Looks to me like the hawk was trying to land, maybe the copter looked very much like a stationary object?

A hawk's feet are what it uses to grab things - including catching things in the air. Having some knowledge of bird behavior, to me, this is a bird defending its territory.

 

[Guest]

Meanwhile, in Soviet Russia... Ah, nevermind:

(@animalrightsgodchosenorwhatever, no, not really)

 

[Wendig0]

Yet another reason to outlaw these stupid things. I'd sooner believe that private citizens need machine guns than flying camcorders.

Comments like yours scare me. Why do you feel like the government needs to ban something else, much less an expensive recreational toy?