Can Birds Be Trained To Bring Down Drones?

In the video, the hawk is clearly the superior predator, swooping in for an attack and knocking the drone down. The hawk also appears to fly away safe and relatively unscathed after the encounter, while the quadcopter instead tumbles to the ground. The risk of injury to a bird from a drone encounter certainly seems very real, however, and it could increase as more and more people use drones. But the dangers haven't yet borne out by arrivals in animal hospitals. I spoke to representatives of both the Lake Milton Raptor Rescue Center and the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary medicine, and neither could recall any birds brought in specifically as the result of a bad encounter with a drone. It's likely even possible that with training, birds could become more comfortable with unmanned aircraft.