Bad weather grounds eagle set to fly filming Alpine glaciers

By Associated Press | Abbey Westbury
October 03 2019 09:57 AM

CP342649846 — In this image made from video provided by Eagle Wings Foundation/Chopard, aerial footage shot by a camera attached to an eagle of a glacier in Western Europe. A white-tailed eagle is filming as he flies over the Alps and its once-magnificent glaciers, which are now crumbling because of global warming. The eagle named Victor will embark upon a series of flights in the first week on Oct. 2019, filming as he soars over the Alps. Organizers hope that his spectacular eagle’s-view footage will help jolt the world out of its climate-change apathy and toward swifter action to combat its effects. (Eagle Wings Foundation/Chopard via AP)

PARIS – Eagles may be majestic, but they aren’t impervious to bad weather.

A white-tailed eagle named Victor won’t be filming over the Alps this week after forecasts forced a foundation that hoped to raise awareness about climate change to cancel the bird’s five flights this week.

Victor was set to capture receding glaciers with a camera between his wings. Eagle Wings Foundation spokeswoman Aurélie Grao said on Thursday that poor conditions including 70 kph (44 mph) winds in the next two weeks meant grounding him.

Instead, the foundation hopes to have the eagle provide an abbreviated look at melting glaciers with a single flight on Tuesday in Chamonix, France.

Experts have warned in recent days that one fast-moving Mont Blanc glacier is at risk of collapsing.

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