Eagles

Hey guys today we will meet the king of the sky. The awesomely powerful, huge and one of the fastest bird The Eagle.


Classification:

• Kingdom                 Animalia
• Phylum                   Chordata
• Class                         Aves
• Order                       Falconiforms or Accipitriforms
• Family                     Accipitridae

Different Species:

• More than 60 species are located in Eurasia and Africa.
• Bald and Golden Eagle are found in USA and Canada.
• 9 other are found in Central and South America.
• 3 in Australia.

Features:

• Weight                      Due to the great number of species the weight ranges from anywhere                                        between 500 gms to 6.5 Kgms.
• Length                      Their length is between 45 cms to 1 meters.

The name Eagle is deprived from the Latin term Aquila by the way of the french Aigle.

           Eagle is well known for perfect controlled flight, its strength and its size. The golden eagle is so powerful that it can crush a human head as easily as a human can crush an egg with their hands. Even the smallest Eagle species the Booted Eagles are the  larger stronger and faster then most of the other birds.

Eagles build their nests (called eyries) on either tall trees, high cliffs, etc. An eagle lays two eggs but usually the stronger or the older chick eats the smaller or weaker sibling.

Like all birds of prey Eagles too have a very powerful hooked beaks, strong muscular legs and claws also called Talons. Eagles have a very keen eyesight even at their fastest speed they can locate even a mouse from a long distance. This is due to their extremely large pupils which causes minimum scattering of the incoming light.

Other Animals: Elephants, Blue Whale.