The document presents an assignment on eagles, highlighting their unique characteristics, such as solitary flight, strong vision, and preference for live prey. It outlines the scientific classification of eagles, their physical features, monogamous nesting habits, and diverse distribution across various geographic regions. Specific species, including various sea and snake eagles, are described along with their diets and habitats.

1. An Assignment On Eagle
Submitted by Abu Zubayer Tanzin
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2. Eagle
• 7 facts about eagle
• Eagles fly alone at a high altitude and do not mix with sparrows
or other smaller birds like geese, ravens or pigeons.
• Eagles possess vision. They have a strong vision, which focuses
up to 5 kilometers from the air in detail.
• Eagles only eat live food.
• The eagle is the only bird that loves the storm
• An Eagle always tests before it trusts.
• Eagles prepare for training.
• Eagles find a place of renewal.

3. Scientific classification
• Kingdom: animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Aves
• Order: Accipitriformes
• Family: Accipitridae
• More than 60 species are present

4. • Eagle large, heavy beaked and big footed prey belongs to the family Accipitridae.
• In general it is called bird of prey, more powerful than a buteo
• Heavy heads and beaks
• Broad wing. Aerodynamic features
• Most eagle are larger than any other raptor except some vultures
• Heavy beak than other prey. Large and hooked for ripping flesh
• Strong and muscular leg and powerful talons
• Eagle eyes are extremely powerful.Twice as long as a human eye.
• Visual acuity .0 to 3.6 times of humans
• It enables them to spot a potential prey from a very long distance
• Large pupil which ensure diffraction of the incoming light
• Female are larger than male
Characteristics

5. • Eagles are monogamous.They mate for life and use the same nest
each year.They tend to nest in inaccessible places, incubating a small
clutch of eggs for six to eight weeks.The young mature slowly,
reaching adult plumage in the third or fourth year.

6. Distribution
• Australasian
• Australia: wedge -tailed eagle (range extends into southern New
Guinea), white-bellied sea-eagle (range extends into Asia), little
eagle.
• New Guinea: Papuan eagle, white-bellied sea-eagle, pygmy eagle.
• Nearctic (USA and Canada): golden eagle (also found in
Palearctic), bald eagle.
• Neotropical (Central and South America): Spizaetus (four
species), solitary eagles (two spp.), harpy eagle, crested eagle, black-
chested buzzard-eagle.
• Palearctic

7. Divided into 4 groups
• Fish eagles:Take fish as a large part of diet
• Booted eagles:True eagle have feathered tarsi
• Snake eagles: Adapted for hunting reptiles
• Harpy eagles: Giant forest eagle inhabit tropical forests. 2-6 species

8. • Sub family: Harpiinae
• large, powerful, crested eagles of the tropical
forests of South America and the South
Pacific.They nest
• in the tops of the tallest trees and hunt
macaws, monkeys, and sloths.
• 1 meter (3.3 feet) long and bears a crest of
dark feathers on its head. Its body is black
above and white below except for a black
chest band
• Hunt carnivore snakes, jaguars and the much
smaller ocelot. tree-dwelling mammals, sloth,
monkey
• Additional : reptiles such as iguanas, tejus,
and snakes
Harpy Eagle

9. The Harrier Eagle
• The harrier eagles,
six species of Circaetus (subfamily
Circaetinae, serpent eagles), of
Europe, Asia, and Africa, are about 60 cm
(24 inches) long and have short
unfeathered legs.They nest in the tops of
trees and hunt snakes.

10. The Sea Eagle/ Fish Eagle
• Sub species: Haliaeetus
• Haliaeetus is possibly one of the oldest
genera of living birds
• Vary in size average 2.0-2.7 kg to huge
Steller's sea eagle(2 m wingspan) weighing
up to 9 kg
• 10 living species
• The tail is entirely white in
adult Haliaeetus species except for
Sanford's, White-bellied, and Pallas’s

11. Booted Eagle
• medium-sized mostly migratory bird of
prey with a wide distribution in
the Palearctic and southern Asia
wintering in the tropics of Africa and
Asia, with a small, disjunct breeding
population in south-western Africa. Like
all eagles, it belongs to the
family Accipitridae.
• Small eagle. Male 510-770g and female
840-1025g
• Length 40 cm and a wingspan of 11-132
cm

12. Snake Eagle
• Sub family: Circaetinae
• medium to large broad-winged species
• feeding on snakes and other reptiles
• All but one of the subfamily are restricted to
warmer parts of the Old
World: Spilornis and Pithecophaga in south Asia,
the others in Africa.The short-toed
eagle Circeatus gallicus migrates between
temperate Eurasia and Africa, as well as being
resident in India.
• They have hooked beaks for tearing flesh from
their prey, strong legs and powerful talons.They
also have extremely keen eyesight to enable