If you are a drone owner and live in the Netherlands, be wary when your drone is up in the sky and flies into areas where it is not allowed such as airports, government buildings, when there are crowds below, eagles may swoop down and snatch them. That’s the plan of Dutch police to keep such pesky drones out of the sky according to the Guardian.

They have partnered with a raptor training company called Guard From Above to look into training such magnificent birds if they can safely snatch drones.

In a way, it makes sense since it is a low-tech solution to a problem of rogue private drones going to places they should not be. But the concern if the Bald eagles’ talons can handle the spinning rotors which some are made of carbon fiber without injuring themselves. The video below shows that the eagle seems to know where to strike a DJI Phantom drone and even retrieve it without getting hurt. The ability to retrieve it and bring it to another location (just hope it is not food for eaglets) is remarkable. This way, eagles are able to take down drones without letting it fall to the ground, especially in crowded areas.

And it looks like that this idea is getting some attention. The London Metropolitan Police are interested and will be monitoring how the Dutch police will proceed with the program. Police and private companies from around the world are trying out different ways to take out rogue drones safely. Japan plans to capture drones using drones with nets; others are looking into a more high-techs solutions such as radio guns that disrupt the communications between the drone and the owner making the drone land safely or go back to the last location of the owner.

But not everyone’s convinced that eagles are a good solution to the drone menace. Nicholas Lund writes in National Geographic, “The biggest problem is the very obvious danger to the eagles. As demonstrated by the Mythbusters crew, who are among the preeminent scientific experimenters of our time, drone blades, especially carbon fiber ones, can cause serious damage to an animal. If an eagle were to midjudge its attack, or if the drone operator were to take evasive or defense maneuvers, a bird could be struck by the blades and seriously injured or killed.”

Whether you go low-tech or high-tech in answering the drone problem, the answer does not lie on drone catching tools alone. A combination of regulations, public education, and even more safety features in civilian drones would probably be a better answer. As for the eagles, they can always fly high and just watch the humans below solve the problem they created.