BELGRADE: Feliks, a rare eastern imperial eagle, is again soaring through the skies of his Serbian homeland after being rescued from the clutches of bird smugglers during his inaugural migration, the national bird society said Friday.
Serbia’s Bird Protection and Study Society, which helped return the bird from its months-long international ordeal, said he had been released back into the wild this week.
After the young raptor first flew the nest in July 2025, experts tracking the protected species’ flight path became alarmed when he took an unusual route toward the Middle East.
“At that point, we started to worry because we could see that he was heading toward an extremely unsafe region,” Uros Stojiljkovic of the Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia told AFP.
In late October, Feliks’s signal disappeared, with his last location recorded in Syria.
