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This study showed that golden eagles were more sensitive to human disturbance during winter than several other raptor species, including bald eagles. [44] The intentional killing of golden eagles has been a conservation hurdle for the species. Golden eagles are intentionally killed usually due to the fear of loss of livestock and game species.
Survival rates are usually much lower in juvenile eagles than in adult eagles. In the western Rocky Mountains, 50% of golden eagles banded in the nest died by the time they were 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years and an estimated 75% died by the time they were 5 years old. [103]
Mountain hawk-eagles are the largest and most robust of the hawk-eagles in the genus Nisaetus. The mountain hawk-eagle is a large raptor and fairly large eagle. Although described not infrequently as "slim", it is usually perceptibly bulkier and more massive than most other members of its genus.
The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils. Forty-three species have been recorded in Ohio.
Bald eagles fight over a fish from North Fork of the Nooksack River in January. Past studies in the area have shown only about 100 bald eagles in an 18-mile stretch of the Nooksack River, but that ...
Steppe eagles can often ambush prey by standing in wait next to burrows, suddenly pouncing quickly onto the quarry upon its emergence. [4] Steppe eagles have been seen in China to buzz through locust swarms on the wing as well as to taking avian prey from over 200 m (660 ft) above the ground in a dive. [141]
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