When Birds Put Lives, Food, and Economies at Risk — We Protect, Sustain, and Coexist.
Every year, wildlife interactions cause billions in damage across agriculture, energy, and aviation sectors. From crop fields to power sites and airport runways, wildlife interference disrupts safety, productivity, and sustainability.
Wildlife strikes cause more than $1.2 billion in annual damage and ongoing safety risks worldwide.
RoBird™ is a drone system engineered to mimic the behaviours and responses of a peregrine falcon.
It creates a strong deterrence response in flocks and establishes perceived predatory ranges, encouraging them to relocate safely without harm.
Developed through years of testing and collaboration, RoBird™ bridges the gap between biology and technology, making bird control precise, humane, and measurable.
Learn more about how the Edmonton International Airport’s partnership with AERIUM and RoBird™ has helped to create a safer environment in a humane and sustainable fashion.
The RoBird Advantage includes:
Designed to replicate authentic falcon behaviour, establishing a credible predatory presence that triggers natural flock response and territorial displacement.
Combines speed and endurance to perform active hazing, reinforcing predatory ranges and sustaining pressure across broader operational areas.
Industry Challenges:
Agriculture faces billions in annual losses from bird damage.
Pest birds can destroy up to 30% of yields in vineyards, berry fields, and orchards, contaminating fruit and forcing reliance on chemical or acoustic deterrents that quickly lose effectiveness.
Mitigation Approach:
AERIUM’s bio-inspired flight technology provides measurable, non-lethal protection.
By mimicking natural predation patterns, it reduces pest bird presence by more than 80%, helping growers protect crops and increase yield sustainably.
Industry Challenges:
Energy & Mining operations encounter constant wildlife interference.
Birds nesting on turbines, solar arrays, and tailings ponds disrupt production, cause shutdowns, and create compliance risks under environmental regulations.
Mitigation Approach:
AERIUM’s drone-based deterrence systems enhance operational safety and compliance.
With effective coverage of 270+ acres per flight, they maintain clear zones around critical assets, reducing wildlife interactions by up to 85% while supporting ESG and biodiversity goals.
Industry Challenges:
Airports & Aviation manage one of the most persistent safety hazards in flight operations.
Bird strikes account for thousands of incidents each year, leading to over USD 1.4 billion in damages globally.
Mitigation Approach:
AERIUM’s integrated wildlife management system strengthens runway safety.
Our bio-inspired drones work together to reduce bird strike risk by up to 70%, ensuring continuous compliance and operational readiness.
The peregrine falcon is the most widely recognized and feared bird of prey on earth. RoBird®’s design is ideal because the falcon is a predator that hunts birds from higher altitudes in open areas, like airports, and has the lifelike appearance and weight of its living counterpart.
All aspects of bird psychology and falconry were considered in RoBird®’s design, including the fact that birds have a keen cognitive ability and an outstanding memory. Birds respond to two things when confronted with prey; the silhouette and behavioural pattern. Birds rely on wing beat frequency to determine how aggressive a predator is. RoBird® mimics the peregrine falcon wing beat frequency with precise accuracy.
RoBird® is a field-proven, effective technology for bird safety and damage mitigation.
RoBird® naturally, humanely, and safely leverages the characteristics of the peregrine falcon to scatter and reduce bird populations with zero harm.
Our team of engineers and developers have drawn inspiration from the motion and behaviour of birds and have considered research into aerodynamic properties in their design. The result is a game-changing device in the field of wildlife management, one in which the RoBird® operator is in full control of what happens in the air.
What makes RoBird® the most humane choice?
As AERIUM rapidly expands across North America we are developing training and hardware solutions to provide economical opportunities for growers to add RoBird® to their fleets and wildlife mitigation strategies.
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Birds react to RoBird® in different ways depending on what they are doing. RoBird® is effective in herding flocks and moving them to safe locations and can change the flight path of migrating birds by intercepting them mid-path. Whether the birds are loafing on water, perching in trees, aerial displaying, or feeding, they will react to RoBird® by getting out of harm’s way.
Safety is of paramount importance when it comes to RoBird®. Here are some of the protocols that have contributed to our record of zero safety incidents:
RoBird® pilots are held to the same mental and physical standards as commercial aviation pilots and are certified under both Transport Canada and the Federal Aviation Administration. Our pilots are trained to incorporate randomized, aggressive, and erratic flying techniques, modelled on years of observation and data on gauging reactions of varied bird species in different activities and scenarios.
