If you've ever wanted a real "bird's eye view", you may want to check out the latest self-video taken by an eager sea eagle that snatched a camera originally recording crocodiles in Western Australia.
The Associated Press reports that on Dec. 2, wildlife rangers in the Kimberly region released the video accidentally taken by a bold sea eagle on May 29 that snatched the camera before taking off in flight for a 70-mile journey across the remote Western Australian outback, later taking a breather to stop and peck at the lens for a kind of "animal selfie." During the flight, its wings can be seen flapping in the frame.
Back in May, the rangers set up the motion-senor camera, which is about four to six inches long and two inches wide, along the Margaret River in hopes of capturing images of fresh-water crocodiles.
The device was later found near the Mary River, 110 kilometers from where it had originally been placed, and once the rangers viewed the tape, they discovered why it had gone missing, as Roneil Skeen told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Skeen adds that from now on, the rangers plan to bolt their cameras to the ground.
"Unexpectedly our camera went missing so we thought we had lost it because it fell into the water," Skeen recalled to ABC News. "It was pretty amazing... They've had camera traps moved [by animals] before, but not taken off, like a flying camera you know? We knew it was a juvenile eagle because the adult sea eagles, once they get their food or their prey, they usually take it right up into the sky and drop it. But this one was still learning because he just took it near the cliff-side and he never dropped [it], he just put it down and started picking at it. An adult one would have flown it right up the top and yeah for sure it would have smashed that camera."
