Someone has created a robotic bird that is incredibly realistic. The demo model in the video (address below) has no markings; it looks like it's wrapped in Mylar. Modeled after a Herring Gull, all it needs is field marks, and at a distance is could be a challenging call. Radio controlled, it flies with appropriate wing movement. It turns and climbs and dives. It moves its head from side to side. It's a gizmo from the research labs of a company called Festo, a world-wide corporation that does things that can be morphed into robotic birds. The video is attached to a brief story in the London Daily Mail. No mention is made there nor on the corporate web site, of being able to buy one. Very expensive. I imagine. But very cool.
The video is on the London Daily Mail's web site:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1370845/SmartBird-mimics-flight-accurately-mistaken-real-thing.html?ITO=1490
