Footage that was captured by a drone shows the largest group of green sea turtles in the world heading towards their nest in Australia to lay their eggs.

If you think this is all a scam, watch this video below.

In the video, you can see the green sea turtles flocking from all around the pacific to their ancestral nesting grounds, as they do every single year.

The footage is playing a very huge scientific purpose, as well as being pretty amazing.

The video that was caught by the drone allows scientists and researchers to assess the numbers of green sea turtles that are heading towards North Queensland.

After watching the video, authorities believe that there are around 64,000 green sea turtles are heading towards their nesting grounds.

Most of the time, the turtles turn up to Raine Island at around this time of the year and form the largest rookery of the world.

Green sea turtles are the only herbivorous sea turtles.

They are also classified as endangered animals.

Researchers reckon that there are going to be more than 60,000 turtles that will nest at the Raine Island in Australia this year.

The island is located at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef, however, the nesting season lasts anywhere from October to February each year.

Looks like the turtles are going to get there early this year so they could enjoy some time off, considering with what’s going on right now, they totally need it.

If you’re wondering how authorities sued to count the number of green sea turtles before drones came in, they used to count the turtles from a boat or head ashore to pain white liens on the backs of nesting turtles.

Andrew Dunstan, a member of the Queensland Department of Environment and Science, said:

Trying to accurately count thousands of painted and unpainted turtles from a small boat in rough weather was difficult. Using a drone is easier, safer, much more accurate, and the data can be immediately and permanently stored. This research is of prime importance to the understanding and management of the vulnerable green turtle population. In the future, we will be able to automate these counts from video footage using artificial intelligence so the computer does the counting for us.

Imagine if technology did not exist, they would still had to manually count everything.

The drone video is very good to see especially with what’s going on right now.