[gedy]

I wonder if this would make a more efficient/effective drone for warfare. Creepy thinking of AI bird drone loitering munitions.

[Teever]

I remember reading a DARPA document from about a decade ago that proposed drones that could land on power lines and leach power. They proposed drones that changed shape to blend in with whatever technical widgets are already hanging off the power lines. While they were charging they could be used as stationary surveillance stations or nodes in a mesh network.

[j-pb]

This will just result in the extinction of endemic bird species in war zones, and after that be as effective as regular drones.