Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography (opens in new tab)

Now we just need a Prodigy - Smack My B Up pigeon parody

https://youtu.be/J1zYF0cejmg?si=3fIDDy19l1Pp7YRh

as drones are illegal in many places and are just targetted on the battlefield like in Ukraine, I wonder when we are going to get drones looking (and with time more and more behaving) like a bird.

I guess that bird could be spying on you. Jokes aside, this is natural drone photography.

I can imagine you would be even more successful with targeted photography from a trained bird.

David Degner! What a legend.

Related: Some very old pigeon photography in a scrollable story from Google Arts & Culture

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/julius-neubronner-an...

I appended `?hl=en` to force the selection of the English language, you may want to remove it (it ignores `fr` or `es`, but it is available in German).

Consumer tech has improved so we can attach cameras to pigeons again once again.

In addition to spy photography, pigeons were being trained to guide missiles at one point by pecking on a screen. Project Orcon (for ORganic CONtrol) was the name of the program. It doesn't appear to have been used for any actual bombings. The trainers said their biggest issue was just getting people to take them seriously. The project was canceled as electronic controls became available.

Brilliant, this is giving me ideas. Growing up, I built multiple pigeon nest to house them around the houses in my hometown and I remember feeding them, and making up my own stories. I think, I sold them for religious ceremonies but I'm sure they comes back to the same homes later.

Now, why shouldn't I start a Pigeon photography/videography thingy and scan the entire town. No need for drones, no nothing, just pigeons with wi-fi-ed cameras that offloads the content as they comes back home every evening.

Ah! That's my hyperspectral imagery source to train the ML-pipelines. What if LIDARs become cheap enough to be fitted on the pigeons? Now, that would be super interesting.

Very interesting but to be pigeon's perspective the eye of the camera should have same resolution, color sensitivity, depth etc of a pigeon. If not it is just another drone shot.