Interesting Facts about Golden Eagle:
This royal bird is well known for its lifestyle and behavior. This precious creature likes to live like a king of the sky and truly when you’ll know their capability, you’ll be amazed. Let’s know some basic truth.
- Universal name: Golden Eagle
- Scientific bookish name: Aquila chrysaetos
- Realm: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Falconiformes
- Family: Accipitridae
- Length: 27 to 33 Inches
- Weight: between 3 to 6.5 kg
- Can live: 30 yrs if stays in wild
- Fastnesses: 250 kilometers
- Found in: Prefers mountain and hills areas such as Europe, North Asia, North America, China and North Africa
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Order: Falconiformes
- Main Prey: Hares, Rabbits, prairie dogs
- Habitat: Hilly areas, large trees, and rocks for nesting
- Dietary Biology: A fully-grown golden eagle requires about 230 to 250 g (8.1 to 8.8 oz) of food per day
Habits and Behaviors of an Eagle:
This species loves to build their nests in larger trees, hills and mostly in mountain areas which are relatively high from the ground. The size of a female is larger than male but that with an average 60 cm height males are more dangerous when surviving becomes questionable. The maximum fasted speed is recorded as 200 miles/hour. That is why these hawks are called as the speed giants of the earth. With 320 km/h speed, it hardly misses any target even from the long distances. When it flies its wings for killing target Rabbits, deer or Hares simply start praying to get a rescue.
The Hunting dogs of the open sky:
The target and killing strategy are truly impressive. That’s why people of Albania called this gorgeous bird as the hunters of the sky. Besides North America other Muslim countries like Qatar, UAE, and Yemen are their preferred places for living. That’s why these countries also finalize eagle as their national species. The unspoken truth is that due to illegal traps, now we (human) have become the greatest threats to this species. We are polluting our environments and disturbing the natural food chain. Many nonprofit organizations and research institute are contentiously doing surveys on how to increase their numbers. Apart from the inconveniences, this bravery bird has sufficient reasons to get such honored by Albanian. The very rare and supernatural bird is the real icon of Albania.
References:
- “National symbols of Albania” wikipedia.org
- “Interesting Facts About Golden Eagles” https://animals.mom.me
- “Bird Checklists of the World” – https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org
