Faster and Better: Comparison between Traditional and Drone Monitoring in a Cryptic Species, the Purple Heron Ardea purpurea

Semi-Automated Counts on Drone Imagery of Breeding Seabirds Using Free Accessible Software

(2022) Alejandro Corregidor-Castro et al.   ARDEA

Drone-conducted counts as a tool for the rapid assessment of productivity of Sandwich Terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis)

(2021) Roberto G. Valle et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Rapid drone semi‐automated counts of wintering Greater Flamingos ( Phoenicopterus roseus ) as a tool for amateur researchers

(2021) Roberto G. Valle   IBIS

Validating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Approach to Survey Colonial Waterbirds

(2021) Landon R. Jones et al.   WATERBIRDS

Human impacts and Anthropocene environmental change at Lake Kutubu, a Ramsar wetland in Papua New Guinea

(2021) Kelsie E. Long et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2021) Dominik Marchowski   Ecology and Evolution

Escape responses of terrestrial and aquatic birds to drones: towards a code of practice to minimise disturbance

(2020) Michael A. Weston et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Sharing waters: the impact of recreational kayaking on moulting mute swans Cygnus olor

(2020) Kevin K. Clausen et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Drones provide a better method to find nests and estimate nest survival for colonial waterbirds: a demonstration with Western Grebes

(2020) Deo Lachman et al.   WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Using flight initiation distance to evaluate responses of colonial‐nesting Great Egrets to the approach of an unmanned aerial vehicle

(2019) Samantha A. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Impacts of coastal reclamation on wetlands: Loss, resilience, and sustainable management

(2018) Wenting Wu et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Climate Change Impacts on the Coastal Wetlands of Australia

(2018) N. Saintilan et al.   WETLANDS

Population trends, threats, and conservation recommendations for waterbirds in China

(2018) Xiaodan Wang et al.   Avian Research

Estimating production in ducks: a comparison between ground surveys and unmanned aircraft surveys

(2018) Hannu Pöysä et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Can drones count gulls? Minimal disturbance and semiautomated image processing with an unmanned aerial vehicle for colony-nesting seabirds

(2018) Graham P. Rush et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Unmanned aircraft systems to unravel spatial and temporal factors affecting dynamics of colony formation and nesting success in birds

(2017) Francesc Sardà-Palomera et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Successful conservation of global waterbird populations depends on effective governance

(2017) Tatsuya Amano et al.   NATURE

Flights of drones over sub-Antarctic seabirds show species- and status-specific behavioural and physiological responses

(2017) Henri Weimerskirch et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Seabird species vary in behavioural response to drone census

(2017) Émile Brisson-Curadeau et al.   Scientific Reports

Use of a Pole-Mounted Camcorder for Indirect Inspection of Nest Contents in Tree-Nesting Grey HeronsArdea cinerea

(2016) Brygida Manikowska-Ślepowrońska et al.   Ardeola-International Journal of Ornithology

Best practice for minimising unmanned aerial vehicle disturbance to wildlife in biological field research

(2016) Jarrod C. Hodgson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Computer-automated bird detection and counts in high-resolution aerial images: a review

(2016) Dominique Chabot et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Precision wildlife monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles

(2016) Jarrod C. Hodgson et al.   Scientific Reports

Approaching birds with drones: first experiments and ethical guidelines

(2015) E. Vas et al.   Biology Letters

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in sediments from lakes along the middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River of China

(2015) Zhao Zhonghua et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Population Census of a Large Common Tern Colony with a Small Unmanned Aircraft

(2015) Dominique Chabot et al.   PLoS One

Rethinking China's new great wall

(2014) Z. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology

(2013) Karen Anderson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Migratory connectivity magnifies the consequences of habitat loss from sea-level rise for shorebird populations

(2013) T. Iwamura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fine-scale bird monitoring from light unmanned aircraft systems

(2011) FRANCESC SARDÀ-PALOMERA et al.   IBIS

Long-term trends of heron and egret populations in Italy, and the effects of climate, human-induced mortality, and habitat on population dynamics

(2009) Mauro Fasola et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Monitoring waterbird populations with aerial surveys – what have we learnt?

(2009) R. T. Kingsford et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

The White Ibis and Wood Stork as indicators for restoration of the everglades ecosystem

(2008) Peter Frederick et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS