An examination of trends in the growing scientific literature on approaching wildlife with drones

M Mo, K Bonatakis - Drone Systems and Applications, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Drones or unoccupied aerial vehicles are rapidly being used for a spectrum of applications,
including replacing traditional occupied aircraft as a means of approaching wildlife from the …

[HTML][HTML] Drones, automatic counting tools, and artificial neural networks in wildlife population censusing

D Marchowski - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drones, automatic counting tools, and artificial neural networks in wildlife population censusing
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[HTML][HTML] Techniques for hazing and deterring birds during an oil spill

BL Chilvers - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Preventing wildlife from becoming oiled is the priority in an oiled wildlife response. This is
achieved through diverting spilled oil away from wildlife, or hazing, deterring, or excluding …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying waterfowl numbers: Comparison of drone and ground-based survey methods for surveying waterfowl on artificial waterbodies

SJ Dundas, M Vardanega, P O'Brien, SR McLeod - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drones are becoming a common method for surveying wildlife as they offer an aerial
perspective of the landscape. For waterbirds in particular, drones can overcome challenges …

The use of drones to study the breeding productivity of Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus

A Sikora, D Marchowski - The European Zoological Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This research was carried out in north-eastern Poland, where Whooper Swan Cygnus
cygnus is a sparse breeder. Whooper Swan is timid and exhibits a tendency to hide in …

Drone‐induced flight initiation distances for shorebirds in mixed‐species flocks

JP Wilson, T Amano, RA Fuller - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drone use has increased in the last decade prompting management efforts to regulate
flights near vulnerable wildlife; however, these efforts are hindered by a lack of data …

[HTML][HTML] Attenuation of Responses of Waterbirds to Repeat Drone Surveys Involving a Sequence of Altitudes and Drone Types: A Case Study

LG Howell, BM Allan, DA Driscoll, D Ierodiaconou… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS, or 'drones' hereafter) have potential for surveying
waterbird species and habitats, but there is a risk that the disturbance from drones could …

Best practices for using drones in seabird monitoring and research

A Edney, T Hart, M Jessopp, A Banks, L Clarke… - Marine …, 2023 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Over the past decade, drones have become increasingly popular in environmental biology
and have been used to study wildlife on all continents. Drones have become of global …

[HTML][HTML] Sociability strongly affects the behavioural responses of wild guanacos to drones

NM Schroeder, A Panebianco - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Drones are being increasingly used in research and recreation but without an adequate
assessment of their potential impacts on wildlife. Particularly, the effect of sociability on …

A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans

CG Booth, N Brannan, R Dunlop… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The assessment of behavioural disturbance in cetacean species (eg resulting from exposure
to anthropogenic sources such as military sonar, seismic surveys, or pile driving) is …