{"id":267823,"date":"2021-06-06T03:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/spooked-terns-abandon-2000-eggs-after-drone-crash\/"},"modified":"2021-06-06T03:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:58:32","slug":"spooked-terns-abandon-2000-eggs-after-drone-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spooked-terns-abandon-2000-eggs-after-drone-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Spooked terns abandon 2,000 eggs after drone crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Spooked terns abandon 2,000 eggs after drone crash<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"featured-image-wrapper\">\n                        Enlarge Image<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-image\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300&amp;h=200&amp;crop=1 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618&amp;h=410&amp;crop=1 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=600&amp;h=400&amp;crop=1 600w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1236&amp;h=820&amp;crop=1 1236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 618px\" id=\"standard-article-image\" alt=\"Elegant Tern\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618&amp;h=410&amp;crop=1\"\/><\/div>\n<p>                    <span>&#8220;Drone owners are attracted by the nesting colonies of birds, and then their actions destroy it,&#8221; said a warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Nick Molsberry.<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"credit img__credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>About 2,000 tern eggs in California were abandoned after an illegal drone flight over their hatching area ended with a crash, spooking the ground-nesting birds.<\/p>\n<p>That was one of two illegal flights on May 13 that ended with a crash in the protected Bolsa Chica wetlands west of Anaheim \u2014 the other drone only temporarily flushed another group of terns from their nests, before they returned, the Orange County Register <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2021\/06\/03\/illegal-drone-scares-terns-which-abandon-3000-eggs-on-bolsa-chica-nesting-island\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ironic,\u201d a warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Nick Molsberry, told the paper. \u201cDrone owners are attracted by the nesting colonies of birds, and then their actions destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Molsberry said only one of the drone operators has come forward \u2014 and been cited. He said he plans to access the memory card of the other to try to find the owner.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"This undated photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife show some 3,000 elegant tern eggs that were recently abandoned on a nesting island at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, Calif., after a drone, prohibited in the area, crashed and scared off the would be parents. \" class=\"wp-image-18441348 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/illegal-drone-abandoned-tern-eggs-huntington-beach-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The drone crash occurred in the protected Bolsa Chica wetlands west of Anaheim, Calif.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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