American drone crashes on the beach Terns are frightened and drop 3,000 bird eggs and fly away

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Overseas network on June 5, the United States "Orange County Chronicle" and the British "Guardian" reported on the 4th that in the Borsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, California, the United States, a drone crashed, causing the terns that nested here to be frightened and abandoned more than 3,000 bird eggs on the beach.

In May 2021, two drones reportedly flew over the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, and one of them crashed into the ecological reserve. The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Protection said the falling drones frightened the terns, and thousands of terns abandoned their nests. This is supposed to be the nesting period for birds, but the beach is full of bird eggs.

Conservation manager Melissa Lobel called it one of the largest bird egg dumping incidents ever recorded in the coastal area north of San Diego. The number of visitors to the reserve increased from 60,000 in 2020 to 100,000. Many people fly drones, walk their dogs, or ride bicycles in ecoregions, which are prohibited behaviors.

Wildlife administrator Nick Mossberg said: "More and more people walking their dogs in the ecoregion without leash, which is a devastating blow to wildlife, now is the best season to build a nest, the dog chases the bird, the bird abandons the nest." "The Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve is the largest wetland between Monterey Bay in southern San Francisco and the tijuana estuary in Mexico, with 800 species of flora and fauna within the reserve. (Overseas Network/Zhang Qi, Intern Editor/Yuan Jie)

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