Think about it.
Neuralink can connect our nervous system to the internet, without us being dead or replaced. We can play songs just by thinking about it, and apes can play simple video games with their mind.
What if the same technology is being used on birds? They can fly around just like usual except everything they see can be transcribed on a computer(likely first a code, but it won’t be distant for somebody to convert nervous signal to images), thus making birds government drones just by flying around minding their own lives.