### animal | vertebrate | bird | raptor:

Eagle
* All eagles have large, heavy, hooked bills and strong, sharp claws called talons.
* Every eagle is made from twelve different species of feathers, from eight different countries.
* More eagles are found in Alaska than in the rest of the contiguous states combined.
* Most eagles are dark brown or black
  - known as eagles
  - located on nests
* Most eagles attack domestic animals
  - large animals
  - carry prey
  - catch small animals
  - defend territory
  - depend on mammals
* Most eagles eat animals
  - dead animals
  - fish
  - mice
  - rabbits
  - rats
  - seabirds
  - emerge from nests
  - feed on fish
  - find a mate and begin breeding when they are five years old
* Most eagles fly over countries
  - ecosystems
  - forests
  - heads
  - islands
  - lakes
  - ponds
  - regions
  - streams
  - trees
  - water
  - wetland
  - follow prey
  - get food
  - give birth to eagles
* Most eagles go through different life stages
  - to air
  - grow feathers
* Most eagles has-part beaks
  - eyes
  - wings
* Most eagles have backs
  - bare legs
  - brown feathers
* Most eagles have excellent eye sight
  - eyesights
  - eyelids
  - feet
  - flight feathers
  - good eyesights
  - instinct
  - scaly, bright yellow skin on their feet
  - shoulders
  - such good eyesights
  - transparent eyelids
  - inhabit northern hemispheres
  - keep beaks
* Most eagles kill collar peccaries
  - large prey
  - lay eggs
* Most eagles learn hunt skills
  - live for years
* Most eagles live in locations
  - maintain territory
  - make nests
  - migrate to territory
  - possess calls
  - pull prey
  - reach ages
* Most eagles require blood
* Most eagles return to lakes
  - seek food
  - seize fish
  - shake feathers
  - shed feathers
* Most eagles sit in trees
  - spread wings
* Most eagles use claws
  - wait for prey
* Some eagles also bite in self-defense, or when they feel threatened.
* Some eagles are located on coastlines
  - member of families
  - attract observers
  - avoid urban areas
  - capture agoutis
* Some eagles depend on rivers
  - salmon
* Some eagles eat cockroaches
  - dead rats
  - flounder
  - jackrabbits
  - large fish
  - monkeys and sloths
  - reptiles
  - snakes
* Some eagles feed in canyons
* Some eagles feed on birds
  - domestic livestock
  - fawns
  - waterfowls
* Some eagles fly over Africa
  - beaches
  - cities
  - marsh
  - tracks
  - give birth to predators
* Some eagles has-part glands
  - tongues
* Some eagles have blotches
  - characteristics
  - layers
  - long tails
  - natural predators
  - kill coots
* Some eagles live in Wyoming
  - districts
  - habitats
  - neighborhoods
  - on cliffs
  - migrate to regions
  - pick up viruses
  - pose threats
  - prefer native pine
* Some eagles reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
  - receive water
  - rely on vision
  - represent nations
  - ride wind
* Some eagles seek mates
  - woodlands
* Some eagles seize kittens
* Some eagles sit in marsh
* Some eagles sit on boulders
  - logs
  - stand in rivers
  - starve to death
  - stay with parents
* Some eagles steal fish
  - thrive in habitats
  - transmit viruses
* acquire adult plumage at four to five years of age.
* adapt to the changes in temperature very efficiently.
* also accumulate toxic levels of lead directly from contaminated flesh.
* also eat carrion and some ducks
  - other vertebrates such as ducks, coots, rabbits and rodents
  - exhibit nomadic wandering, mostly by subadults
  - feed on carrion
  - have amazing eyesight and can see a fish from two miles away
  - nest in live cypress and dead trees
  - prey upon waterfowl, small mammals, sea urchins, clams, crabs, and carrion
  - require isolated areas, for they are easily disturbed by human activities
* are People Helping people.
* are a big bird
  - common sight, as are dozens of other birds scattered about the islands
  - able to see a tiny mouse when they are a long way up in the sky
  - abundant, as are swans and other sea and song birds
  - actually large hawks
* are also one of America's national symbols
  - scavengers that search the waterways and highways for dead carcasses
  - an important part of Indian culture and religion
  - another avian threat to osprey chicks
  - at the top of the ecological pyramid
  - avoided by staying in large groups and remaining vigilant
  - birds of prey
  - careful to avoid danger
  - carnivorous and eat fish and other small game
  - coin
  - considered spiritual messengers between gods and humans by some cultures
  - daytime eaters
  - easily scared off by humans
  - emblems
  - everywhere as are a multitude of sea birds
  - fierce, proud, majestic birds of prey
  - generalists
  - hatched from eggs and are fed in the nest by their parents
  - hunters as well as scavengers
  - in a worldwide family of diurnal birds of prey along with Kites and hawks
  - indigenous to the Mountains and can often be seen soaring overhead
* are known as eagles
  - to prey on pups
  - large birds
  - leisurely migrators
  - limited, too, in the size of the prey they can carry
  - loud, but they have a limited vocabulary
  - magnificent birds
* are majestic birds
  - creatures
  - more dangerous when habituated by feeding to close contact with people
  - native American birds
  - one of the largest and most powerful birds in the world
  - opportunistic scavengers
  - predators that are very dependent on being able to see in three dimensions
  - scores
  - software
  - solitary birds
  - soon to be off the endangered species list
  - symbolic of a certain type of person
  - territorial during nesting season
* are the biggest threat to newborn pups
  - intermediate form between falcons and hawks
  - king of birds
* are the largest birds in our sky
  - members of the hawk family and are raptors, meat-eating birds of prey
  - major predators of young foxes in some areas
  - most long-lived bird in the world
  - thought as messengers between gods and humans
* are typically eight to thirteen pounds
  - single-brooded during each nesting season
  - very fast
* are very large birds, with broad wings and tail
  - when compared to most other birds
  - rare
  - well known for their habit of building large nests measuring several feet across
  - well-insulated by their feathers and are very good at regulating their body temperature
* attack animals
  - moas
* attain their adult plumage at four or five year of age.
* become more abundant to the south because of milder conditions.
* begin their southward migration as the ice begins to appear in the fall.
* build nests high in trees
  - in trees and on cliffs
  - made of large sticks
  - on rocky cliffs
* build their nests at the highest point around
  - near water and often use the same one year after year
  - on the tops of tall trees or on cliffs
  - nests, or eyries, atop tall trees, high cliffs and bluffs
* call from the tops of the spruces.
* can also swim, using their wings to propel themselves through the water
  - carry children twice their weight
  - change the shape of their lens, and can also change the shape of their corneas
* can fly dangerously low sometimes
  - higher than any other birds
  - very high
  - glide long distances catching air currents
  - recognize dead fish, road-killed animals, and other carrion as food
  - see color
  - sight their prey while soaring high in the air
  - soar gracefully at high altitudes
  - speak to humans
* carve circles in the sky above.
* catch animals
  - live animals
* chase prey.
* construct their nests near water in tall trees or on cliffs using large sticks.
* cross skies.
  - their extraordinary eyesight to hunt for their food
* dive down to capture their prey and then carry it off in flight
  - for food just offshore
  - into the water to catch fish
* do a lot of soaring over prey
  - get a free ride when riding thermals, and can migrate great distances with ease
* eat a lot of fish, and the poison collected in their bodies too
  - lot, so they poop a lot
  - almost any kind of small animal
  - fish, snakes, and other small animals
  - seagulls And also eat weasels
  - snakes, and become tertiary consumers
* express love, honor, peace and friendship.
* face life
  - many hazards in populated areas
* feed babies
  - off fish, so they nest along shorelines
  - primarily on fish, which is why they live and nest along shorelines
  - their young by shredding pieces of meat from their prey with their beaks
* flap wings.
* float on updrafts.
* fly alone
  - by flapping huge wings, but that consumes energy
  - in wide circles, scoping the area below
* follow eagles
* generally inhabit coastal regions and areas with lakes and rivers.
* get fat off plentiful fish
* glide above the rolling, wind-swept prairie, searching for prey.
* go through a molting experience with their feathers.
* hang in the sky.
  - guts
* have a large, strong beaks with a sharp hook at the tip
  - special locking mechanism for their talons
  - sufficient wingspan to electrocute themselves on hydro lines
  - wing span of over six feet, and their average weight is thirteen pounds
  - an out pouching of the esophagus, called a crop, where they can store food
  - between one and three eggs per year
  - big wings for soaring, falcons and other smaller birds have thin wings built for speed
  - hearing and can hunt as much by ear as by sight
  - eyelids that close during sleep
  - eyesight eight times greater than the human eye
  - fantastic eyesight, far superior to human vision
  - hook beaks
  - landeds
  - long broad wings and tails
  - lungs
  - plumage and the biggest beak of all the birds
  - several layers of feathers which each serve a purpose
  - sharp beaks and strong jaws that can remove a finger in one snap
* have strong hooked beaks that they tear their prey or bits of plants with
  - legs and feet
* have strong, broad wings
  - hooked bills and powerful talons adapted to their flesh-eating mode of life
* have the correct numbers of tail feathers, and so on
  - keenest sight of all animals
  - wings that are specially adapted to soaring
* hunt animals
  - meals
* imply strength, endurance and tradition.
* includes air sacs
  - bird's feet
  - brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - lips
  - mouths
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - rib cages
  - second joints
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - wishbones
* inhabit all major land regions except Antarctica and New Zealand
* kill adult and young monkeys with their powerful claws
* lay eggs late in the month
  - to fly and hunt because they possess courage as well as determination
* like to make their nests in very high places.
  - pairs
  - the top of the trees in the emergent layer of the rain forest
  - on all continents, except Antarctica, in wet jungles, forests, sea coasts or mountains
  - up to forty years and they are found in the United States, Europe and Asia
* look fierce and proud, and they soar gracefully high in the air
  - sometimes soar gracefully high in the air
* love to eat salmon
* make decisions
  - hard decisions
* make their nests by water
  - high up in trees
  - in the tops of tall trees or on the side of a cliff
* mate for life and produce two to three eggs per year
  - return to the same nest every year
  - usually return to the same nest
* move great distances by catching thermals and soaring to great heights.
* need territory.
* nest in coniferous trees
* often follow sea birds in order to catch their fish prey
  - ignore mobbing behavior by smaller birds
  - prefer high tree tops with the best commanding view of an area
  - soar high above the pasture where deer graze, unafraid, among the cows
  - use the same nest year after year
  - winter here in numbers
* only travel as far as they have to in order to find food.
* perch high back in the hills, and still six feet of snow
* practice with almost fully developed bodies, and so sharpen their skills quickly.
* prefer isolated marsh areas bordered by woods for resting and nesting.
* prey on birds
* preying on predatory fish are an example of tertiary consumers.
* primarily eat fish, carrion, smaller birds and rodents.
* rank second in size only to the California condor among birds of prey in North America.
* rely heavily on the rabbits for food
  - on their talons to survive
* remain near open water during winter months
  - strong to the end of their lives
* represent a symbol of beauty and power, of excellence and care, and of freedom and integrity.
* require a great deal of energy to survive in the cold
  - large areas of wild habitat for forage and nesting
* return to the same nest year after year
  - nesting site every year and add on to the original structure each season
* roost near the water in a big, twiggy nest built on top of the largest conifer they can find.
* scavenge dead fish along shorelines and capture live ones with their feet.
* seize and kill prey with long curved talons
* sit on feeding perches along the shore eying both fish and waterfowl
* snack on carrion as well as fresh fish and waterfowl.
* soar on flat wings the size of ironing boards
  - overhead frequently as long as waterfowl move in flocks
* sometimes resort to hunting in pairs
  - snatch ospreys' fish in mid-air acts of piracy
  - soar overhead, as a few still nest in the park
* spend most of the daylight hours perched.
* spot jackrabbits
* still glide in a sky shared by passing planes.
* successfully rear one or two nestlings each season.
* swallow prey.
* swoop down and use their sharp talons to snatch fish that are near the surface of the water.
* tend to be associated with larger lakes
  - use the same nests year after year
* train their young.
* typically initiate incubation with the first egg which leads to asynchronous hatching.
* use and keep adding sticks to their nests for years and years
  - the same nest making it bigger each year
* use their beak to remove undigestable feathers or fur before eating a larger animal
  - sharp, powerful beaks to rip flesh from their prey
  - strong feet, or talons, to capture prey
* usually add to the same nest year after year, but sometimes they seem to like a change
  - arrive at roost sites after dark and depart roost sites before dawn
  - begin arriving at the communal roost within the last two hours of daylight
  - return to the same areas year after year
  - start to breed at four to nine years of age
* vary in size,depending on species and individual.
* vocalize regularly.
* want water.
+ Bald Eagle, Behavior, Reproduction: Birds of North America :: Symbols of the United States
  * The nest of the Bald Eagle is larger than any other nest in North America. This is because it is used again and again, and every year more is added to the nest until it may soon become as large as  deep,  across and weigh 1 tonne. The nest is built out of branches, usually in large trees near water. If there are no trees, the Bald Eagle will make its nest on the ground. Eagles have between one and three eggs per year. Both the male and female take turns incubating the eggs. The other parent will hunt for food or look for more to add onto the nest. The eggs are about  long
  - Relationship with humans, In Native American culture
  * The Bald Eagle is a holy bird in some North American cultures. Its feathers are thought to be special. They are used very much in spiritual customs among the Native Americans. Eagles are thought as messengers between gods and humans. Eagle feathers are often used in traditional things, especially in fans. The Lakota people, for instance, give an eagle feather as a symbol of honor to a person who achieves a task. In modern times, it may be given on an event such as a graduation from college. The Pawnee people thought eagles as symbols of nature and fertility. This is because their nests are built high off the ground, and because they protect their young very bravely.
  * Eagles are birds. They can fly