Golden Eagle And Its Features

The golden eagle is one of the best-known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. It is among the fastest, largest,  raptors in North America. Lustrous gold feathers gleam on the back of its head and neck; a powerful beak and talons advertise its hunting prowess. You're most likely to see this eagle in western North America, soaring on steady wings or diving in pursuit of the jackrabbits and other small mammals that are its main prey. Sometimes seen attacking large mammals, or fighting off coyotes or bears in defense of its prey and young, this eagle has long inspired both reverence and fear.

Well Known Features of Golden Eagle

• It is the most abundantly found species of eagle. 
• It belongs to the family Accipitridae.
• Their color is dark brown and light golden brown.
• They have white markings on their wings. They have strong and powerful feet and massive, sharp talons to attack their prey.
• They have large nests in higher places.
•  Females lay eggs up to four, and then incubate them for six weeks. 

For centuries, this species has been one of the most highly regarded birds used in falconry. Due to its hunting prowess, the golden eagle is regarded with great mystic reverence in some ancient, tribal cultures. It is one of the most extensively studied species of raptor in the world in some parts of its range, such as the Western United States and the Western Palearctic. (Wikipedia)

Some More Facts

• It is the most widely recognized authority public creature on the planet—it's the image of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan. 
• Albeit equipped for slaughtering huge prey, for example, cranes, wild ungulates, and homegrown animals, it stays alive principally on bunnies, rabbits, ground squirrels, and grassland canines. 
• "Hacking," a deep-rooted falconry strategy, is revamping its populaces.
• Humans feed caged, lab-reared nestlings at a nest-like hack site until the birds reach 12 weeks old when the cage is opened and they begin feeding themselves. The fledglings continue to receive handouts from their hack-site caretakers for several weeks until they gain full independence in the wild.
• The Rough-legged Hawk, the Ferruginous Hawk, and they are the only American raptors to have legs feathered all the way to the toes.
• The most established recorded eagle of this kind was at any rate 31 years, 8 months old when it was found in 2012 in Utah. It had been united in a similar state in 1980. 
• Since their regular prey creatures (warm-blooded animals) don't will, in general, ingest pesticides, they have gotten away from the mischief supported by fish-eating or fledgling eating raptors from DDT and related synthetic concoctions. At the point when these pesticides diminished the eggshells of numerous flying creatures of prey, their shells held ordinary thickness. Pesticide focuses on their blood remained underneath levels known to cause regenerative issues. 
• Researchers, architects, and government authorities have coordinated in creating and publicizing power-post plans that diminish raptor electric shocks—caused when the enormous flying creatures' wings or feet unintentionally contact two lines and structure a circuit. Since the mid-1970s, service organizations have changed shafts to forestall hawk electric shocks. Furthermore, some new electrical cables in nonurban regions have been worked to "raptor-safe" development norms.
• The measure of white in the wings of a youthful Golden Eagle changes among people, and a couple of need white in the wings altogether.