Pigeon with head-mounted camera.

Source I worked as a falconer before graduate school, so I was familiar with falconry hoods. I sewed many different sizes of hoods to hold the camera in place on the pigeon’s head, along with little backpacks for the rest of the equipment, and tried them on the pigeons until I found the perfect fit. The system weighs just 27 grams and includes a miniature computer about half the size of a credit card; a tiny modified commercial camera; a motion and orientation measurement unit; and cables and electronics tape to reduce static during flight. We fitted cameras and backpacks onto two pigeons at a time in a flock of about 16, while half wore dummy packs. We released them on a familiar route, and I would race them home in my truck to collect the footage. camera-equipped homing pigeons could improve robotic vision in flight Check the video for another angle on the head cam. There is some amazing tech now.