eagle

Eagle is the common name for certain large birds of prey within the family of the Accipitridae. While on a genetic level, only the subfamily Aquilinae comprises "true eagles", many other species are commonly referred to as eagles, such as the bald eagle, and the term generally carries no taxonomic weight. Most of the 68 species of eagles are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just 14 species can be found—two in North America, nine in Central and South America, and three in Australia.

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Eagles are large birds of prey found mainly in Eurasia and Africa, though some species also live in the Americas and Australia. They matter as apex predators in their ecosystems, and the term "eagle" is commonly applied to many species in the hawk family, even though scientifically only a specific subfamily constitutes true eagles.

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Research

14,919 papers

Cyanobacterial eagle killer.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2021Hofer UDOI: 10.1038/s41579-021-00553-4
Eagle for better genome-wide association mapping.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021George AW, Verbyla A, Bowden JDOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab204
Eagle: multi-locus association mapping on a genome-wide scale made routine.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2020George AW, Verbyla A, Bowden JDOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz759
An appraisal of FDA approvals for adult solid tumours in 2017-2021: has the eagle landed?ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2022Cherny NIDOI: 10.1038/s41571-022-00636-y
Eagle's Syndrome Diagnosis Requires Further Consideration.The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology · 2019Lou ZDOI: 10.1177/0003489419846137
Incidental eagle carcass detection can contribute to fatality estimation at operating wind energy facilities.PloS one · 2023Hallingstad E, Riser-Espinoza D, Brown SDOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277150
Eagle jugular syndrome presenting with intracranial hypertension - Diagnosis and illustration of pathophysiology by multi-modality imaging.The neuroradiology journal · 2024Leung HS, Choi CHJ, Lau EHL et al.DOI: 10.1177/19714009231187347
The prey of the Harpy Eagle in its last reproductive refuges in the Atlantic Forest.Scientific reports · 2023Kaizer M, Fabres B, Aguiar-Silva FH et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44014-9

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Contents

Etymology
Description
Habitat
Distribution
Groups
Fish eagles
Booted eagles
Snake eagles
Harpy eagles
Species
In culture
Etymology
Religion and spirituality
Heraldry
Notes
References
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Eagles are not a natural group but denote essentially any kind of bird of prey large enough to hunt sizeable (about 50 cm long or more overall) vertebrates.