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An Anonymous Coward writes:

"a drone that crash-landed into their nesting grounds on an island at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve.
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Some 3,000 elegant terns fled the reserve after the drone crashed May 12, leaving behind 1,500 to 2,000 eggs, none of them viable.

As for the birds ... nobody is sure what happened to them.
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nothing has been as catastrophic as drones, which are being flown over the reserve with increasing frequency.

Drones are not permitted to fly over state wildlife reserves
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The man Molsberry cited claimed he didn’t realize it was illegal to fly drones there because a Federal Aviation Administration app showed the airspace as a so-called “green zone,” Loebl said."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-07/thousands-of-eggs-abandoned-after-drone-crash-at-orange-county-nature-reserve [latimes.com]

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