golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

Description
English: Mountain-Eagle, Aquila chrysaetus.
Date 1911
Source Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911
Author Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8, Slice 9., available freely at Project Gutenberg
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Britannica_Eagle_2.jpg

The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best-known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the most widely distributed species of eagle. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Despite being extirpated from or uncommon in some of its former range, the species is still fairly ubiquitous, being present in sizeable stretches of Eurasia, North America, and parts of North Africa.


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Description		golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Description English: Mountain-Eagle, Aquila chrysaetus. Date 1911 Source Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 Author Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 8, Slice 9., available freely at Project Gutenberg Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Britannica_Eagle_2.jpg The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best-known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the most widely distributed species of eagle. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Despite being extirpated from or uncommon in some of its former range, the species is still fairly ubiquitous, being present in sizeable stretches of Eurasia, North America, and parts of North Africa.

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