--- title: Dubai Eagle Video: Here's Dubai's Skyline From the Back of an Eagle description: An eagle flew 2,722 feet from the top of the world's tallest building in Dubai with a camera strapped to its back, and the video is amazing. canonical: https://time.com/3746046/eagle-dubai-camera/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-16T17:43:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:11:24.513Z article:section: Science og:title: Here's What It's Like to Fly From the Top of the World's Tallest Building on an Eagle's Back og:description: That's a 2,722 feet drop captured on video og:url: https://time.com/3746046/eagle-dubai-camera/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt823138da14775a25/698783b43c163922cd452461/dubai-eagle-burj-khalifa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1280 og:image:height: 720 og:image:alt: Dubai Eagle Burj Khalifa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What It's Like to Fly From the Top of the World's Tallest Building on an Eagle's Back twitter:description: That's a 2,722 feet drop captured on video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt823138da14775a25/698783b43c163922cd452461/dubai-eagle-burj-khalifa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What It's Like to Fly From the Top of the World's Tallest Building on an Eagle's Back > Sponsored content. 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The eagle, named Darshan, flew from the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai to its trainer on the ground as part of a public awareness campaign for endangered species led by the Freedom Conservation group. Freedom Conservation has publicized other videos with eagles flying from famous locations like the Eiffel Tower and St. Paul’s Cathedral in Paris. The flight in Dubai now holds the record for “highest-ever recorded bird flight from a man-made structure,” the group says. “We know that people love these types of videos. It’s a great way for us to attract the public’s attention to endangered animals and to the fact that humans need to learn how to share their space with these animals,” Freedom Conservation Director Ronald Menzel told [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/eagle-camera-dives-worlds-tallest-skyscraper-n323546). _Read next:_ [_So This Baby Weasel Decided to Hitch a Ride on a Flying Woodpecker’s Back_](http://time.com/3729535/woodpecker-weasel-photograph/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3746046/eagle-dubai-camera/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3746046/eagle-dubai-camera/"},"headline":"Here's What It's Like to Fly From the Top of the World's Tallest Building on an Eagle's Back","datePublished":"2015-03-16T17:43:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:11:24.513Z","description":"That's a 2,722 feet drop captured on video","url":"https://time.com/3746046/eagle-dubai-camera/","keywords":["animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt823138da14775a25/698783b43c163922cd452461/dubai-eagle-burj-khalifa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt823138da14775a25/698783b43c163922cd452461/dubai-eagle-burj-khalifa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dubai Eagle Burj Khalifa","caption":"Dubai Eagle Burj Khalifa","creditText":"Freedom/SONY","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3746046/eagle-dubai-camera/","name":"Here's What It's Like to Fly From the Top of the World's Tallest Building on an Eagle's Back"}}]}] ```