Original sentence: At one time, people of eastern Europe and adjacent parts of Russia used to admire and even revere this eagle as a “sacred bird”.Despite the historic reverence for the species, it was not spared the negative and hostile view of all birds of prey that came to fruition throughout Europe and its colonies in the 17th century onwards, which in turn led to increased resulting persecution of essentially all birds of prey including the eastern imperial eagle.However, almost certainly the leading cause of this species’ decline was the epidemic's felling of old growth trees on field boundaries that were the nest sites for the eagle.It was widely referred to as the " cross-bearing eagle" (because of the shape of the white spots on wings).The eastern imperial eagle has declined greatly through history
Edited sentence: At one time, people of eastern Europe and adjacent parts of Russia use to admire and even revere this eagle as a “sacred bird”.Despite the historic reverence for the species, it was not spared the negative and hostile view of all birds of prey that came to fruition throughout Europe and its colonies in the 17th century onwards, which in turn lead to increased resulting persecution of essentially all birds of prey including the eastern imperial eagle.However, almost certainly the leading cause of this species’ decline was the epidemics felling of old growth trees on field boundaries that were the nest sites for the eagle.It was widely referring to as the " cross-bearing eagle" (because of the shape of the white spots on wings).Sadly, the eastern imperial eagle has declined greatly through history