Dubai World Record Eagle Flight

[Rick-a-Roo]

From the Inbox:

This has been around before, but it is a really impressive 2 minutes.

An eagle's flight from the top of the world's tallest building to his handler
below. An eagle was fitted with a camera and released from the top of the
2,715 foot Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. The eagle has no idea where the tiny
speck of land was that his handler is standing on or what it looked like
among all of the other islands and buildings and people.

Somehow from that altitude, the eagle actually picks out and recognizes the
trainer from all of the other objects, people, etc.

You can see him looking, looking, looking for the trainer, completely invisible
to a human eye and the camera, then fold his/her wings and then drops like
a bullet straight to that trainer... very cool.

What surprised the experts is not only how efficiently the eagle spots his
trainer from that altitude, but how smooth its flight is with no camera shake
whatsoever, even when it goes into a power dive.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/6g95E4VSfj0?rel=0

Not quite accurate - the eagle has to spot the red square before he can spot
the handler.

Nevertheless, very impressive.

[10 Bears]

Cool cam footage also.

[44044]

Amazing birds