Give Wing credit where it’s due. The company has not only launched and grown its Australian drone delivery business despite the headwinds of Covid complications and sustained complaints by certain homeowners, but it’s now even having to fend off repeated attacks by tetchy ravens.
Multiple videos uploaded this week captured Wing drone delivery craft approaching destinations for drop-offs, only to be attacked by ravens as they descend closer to the ground. The swoops have occurred in the suburbs around Canberra, and have become regular enough that flights to the Harrison area north of the Australian capital have been temporarily suspended. All that’s missing is the signature Alfred Hitchcock cameo and the situation could qualify for another animals-go-nuts-on-humans film.
The earliest videos recorded a single raven having at a Wing drone as it prepared to lower a coffee delivery. That approach from above, however, was fairly short-lived (and probably…
