3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California

This undated photo 3,000 elegant tern eggs that were recently abandoned on a nesting island (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP)

Some 3,000 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a Southern California nesting island after a drone crashed and scared off the birds, a newspaper has reported.

Two drones were flown illegally over the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach in May and one of them went down in the wetlands, The Orange County Register said.