Awesome new footage offers true bird's eye view of London

Awesome new footage offers true bird's eye view of London
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LONDON -- Those people that attach cameras to eagles have been at it again.

This time, the birds are soaring over London, flying off St Paul's Cathedral, swooping down onto Tower Bridge and keeping an eye on the Olympic Stadium.

The clips have been released on the Freedom YouTube page, a joint project between the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and French falconer Jacques Olivier. They help mark 50 years of the IUCN Red List of the world's most threatened species. The list was updated recently to mark the passing of the world's largest earwig.

A new exhibition highlighting the issue, Here Today, opens at the Sorting Office in London on Nov. 25. It features wildlife-themed work from Tracey Emin, Andy Warhol and others.

Earlier this year they recorded an eagle flying over Paris and the Alps.

In other mounted camera news, a squirrel stole one of the cameras and ran up a tree with it in Canada this week.

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Correction: this article previously stated the footage was shot on a GoPro camera. It was actually recored with Sony’s Action Cam Mini.

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