Even Anti-Drone Eagles Can't Escape the 2022 Tech Layoffs

The Silicon Valley legacy brands came first. The layoffs of tech workers are about to get worse. That bird isn't that bird. We are talking about drones.

The anti-drone "eagle brigade" was discontinued by the police after five years due to concerns for the animals' safety. Altar and Draco will have to start looking for work. You mean the bird equivalent?

The use of drones makes this project of using raptors too uncertain and dangerous for the physical integrity of the eagles.

In order to snatch rogue drones out of the sky without having them fall to the ground and potentially harm bystanders, the police in the city began training the drones to hate eagles last year. It is a particularly concerning target for malicious drones due to the fact that it regularly hosts politicians from around the world.

Even though the program ended, eagles are still able to take out those flying objects. An eagle plucking a bot out of the sky is shown in a video uploaded by Guard From Above.

Nature wasn't the only one trying to turn tech on it's head. Europe explored training their own eagle warriors.

A fan of the Star Wars movies. The lightsabers are powered by Neopixels and have strips that run inside the blade shape that allow for a variety of colors and sounds.

Four drones named after characters from The Three Musketeers were flown by the Royal Air Force in France. Vice reports that the birds were hatched atop the corpses of dead drones which made them want to destroy them as a food source. The U.S. Air Force conducted a study on raptors in order to see if they could be used to defend against drones.

Switzerland is out of luck more than any other country in the world. Anti-drone eagles are at risk of professional extinction due to the fact that many laid off tech employees can simply fall into similar positions at a rival company or possibly hop on to a growing startup.

The Netherlands ended its eagle hunting program due to costs and concerns from animal rights groups, according to a report. Though prominent anti-drone eagle trainers like Guard From Above say the eagles aren't at risk of injury when wrecking their mechanical prey, the practice nonetheless raised concerns from animal rights groups and falconer Robert Muster.

The risk isn't limited to eagles.

If an eagle can't catch his prey, he might pick up something else. The talons of the eagles are so strong that they can pierce a child's head.

It might be time for those winged beasts to consider a career change.