Everyone knows that the Eagles - a proud bird.And for good reason.These winged predators are distributed worldwide.Consider some of the outstanding views of the eagle family.
crested eagles - bird-killer!
most powerful and menacing raptors eagle tribe - it is some kind of giant crested eagles.They live in tropical African and South American forests.For example, a harpy, lives in South America, weighs up to ... 8 kilograms, the length of its body reaches a meter!It is this bird of prey has the longest, powerful and merciless claws around the world!
It seems incredible, but the favorite delicacy of harpies and other crested eagles are monkeys and large mammals: they are stealing from the villages of pigs, dogs, stifle sloths and other animals.In Africa, these birds consume antelope, jackals and baboons.Crested Eagles - intelligent birds.They only hunt from ambush, being a long time in complete immobility waiting for potential prey.These birds are cold-blooded ruthless, and!
most predatory birds - golden eagle!
course, in size golden eagles inferior harpies, but are the most powerful and predatory eagle family members all over the northern hemisphere.Not for nothing is the eagle symbolizes the greatness of Clan Raptors.
Habitat this bird is quite large.Golden Eagle is able to adapt to nesting in a variety of conditions for existence - from forest swamps and marshes to the alpine highlands.All the eagles - birds with serious inquiries to life.That's the golden eagle hunting need open and extensive aerial and terrestrial space, and for nesting and resting - cliffs or high derevya.Samym known method of hunting eagle is close to stalking prey soaring to a great height, and then - lightning attack from the sky.Zoologists simply admire the spectacle: the predator folds its wings and stone throws on its prey.Of course, about any chances of survival of the victim can not walk and talk.Eagle prey are deer, roe deer, calves, foxes, hares, squirrels, marmots and other animals.
eagles and squirrels
One of the phenomenal abilities of eagles - is to find ground squirrels where they are not.For example, it copes well with steppe eagle or white.Bird often catching gophers, while lying in wait, which in turn is arranged directly near rodent burrows.Predator can lie for hours for some tubercle, waiting for their favorite delicacy.Once the rodent itself apart from its burrow, the bird throws lightning at him.Eagle clumsily runs, it throws from side to side.On the surface it seems a real shame for a representative of a solid eagle family, but most predators have absolutely nothing to do with other people's opinions about it.The main thing - it is a treasured catch a gopher!But gophers sometimes also do not miss.They recognize the raptors on their silhouettes in the sky.As soon as they see it, as immediately, his eyes bulging, rush to salvage hole, disturbing squeaking.
