Getting an eagle's eye view
Web exclusive: Getting an eagle’s eye view
How we filmed the eagle POV high over the mountains.
Golden eagles are one of the few birds powerful enough to fly at high altitude in the world's great mountain ranges. To experience this beautiful but perilous world through the eyes of a majestic golden eagle, Planet Earth II turned to a very special camera team.
To experience this beautiful but perilous world through the eyes of a majestic golden eagle, Planet Earth II turned to a very special camera team.
Jaques-Olivier Travers is a raptor conservationist who trains eagles in the hope of returning them to fly in the wild. He fitted a miniature 4k 'lipstick' camera to a young golden eagle called 'Slovak'. Their partnership was filmed over the course of a winter in the high Alps. The footage they returned with captured a glimpse of this high altitude world, from the perspective of a soaring eagle. When combined with footage of wild birds the onboard camera shots give us the true sensation of what it feels like to fly above the Alps at 5,000m.
Producer – Justin Anderson
Photography
Jacques-Olivier Travers, Slovak the Eagle
Editor – Tom Wright
