Amazon’s delivery-drone research focuses on avoiding birds

Amazon.com Inc’s development of package-delivery drones is progressing to the point where the company is now thinking a lot about geese. 

The e-commerce company said it has started development of an air-traffic control system to manage its fleet as the drones fly from warehouses to customers’ doors. Amazon created a new research and development team near Paris, where about a dozen software engineers and developers will build a system aimed at ensuring flying delivery vehicles don’t collide with buildings, trees, other drones or – and most unpredictable of all – birds. Or, to use aviation industry jargon, “non-collaborative flying objects.”