WATCH: Eagle flies over Paris with camera on its back

French falconer Jacques Olivier Travers presents a white-tailed eagle which has just flown from the top of the Eiffel Tower to the Trocadero gardens, on September 28, 2014 in Paris, during a presentation of several endangered raptor species.

Credit: THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images

Credit: THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images

French falconer Jacques Olivier Travers presents a white-tailed eagle which has just flown from the top of the Eiffel Tower to the Trocadero gardens, on September 28, 2014 in Paris, during a presentation of several endangered raptor species.


"Freedom, the Flight of an Eagle" is a crowdfunded project from France that aims to one day bring back the white-tailed eagle out of captivity and into the country's open air.

The above video is one of many in what's called "docu-fiction" series. Co-creators Jacques-Olivier Travers, a bird enthusiast, and Muriel Barra, the producer and co-writer, film their subject, Rio the white-tailed eagle, in a natural habitat fending for survival but set to theme of "a philosophical tale, an ode to freedom."

More on the project can be found here. (FYI: The page is written in French and requires a translator to be viewed in English.)

More videos can be seen on the YouTube channel.