Posted on 03/15/2015 5:32:39 PM PDT by QT3.14
Darshan the eagle flew from atop the 2,722 ft. Burj Khalifa in Dubai on Saturday, setting the world record for the "highest recorded bird flight from a man-made structure."
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Note at 1:30 in the video in lower left corner just above the wing a red square is visible where the handler is waiting.
These birds winter in the Middle East.
Holy COW! Or, in this case, HOLY EAGLE! Incredible view.
Wow
But apparently they can’t do something as simple as fly to Mordor and drop a ring into Mt. Doom.
Wow, just wow !!!
Wow, go Darshan!
Looks as though he was enjoying a thermal for as long as he could. Thank you for posting it.
SUPER! Thanks for posting....
Would suck if he smacked into the window of a skyscraper, no?
He makes it look easy.
I was thinking along the lines of a bird strike by an aircraft.
You mean like, he gets sucked into the whirring rotors of a jet engine?
He was really moving when he went into the dive at the end. Very neat.
WOW..awesome.
Help the little birdie! Blow the snow off it’s nest! Something.
We have all sorts of help for humans but when it comes to wildlife it’s ‘don’t interfere’.
INTERFERE!
Help the little birdie! Blow the snow off it’s nest! Something.
We have all sorts of help for humans but when it comes to wildlife it’s ‘don’t interfere’.
INTERFERE!
Did you mean to send it to the other post just after mine referring to an eagle’s nest?
From the Eiffel Tower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNc0SFIp-o
Thanks. There’s a bunch of them, London, etc..
This is cool:
Same eagle as in Dubai, plus a bald eagle and some species of vulture :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7IVjCQ26pE
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