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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Golden eagle

Aquila chrysaetos (Linnaeus, 1758)

金鵰(學名:Aquila chrysaetos)是北半球上一種廣為人知的猛禽。如所有鷹一樣,它屬於鹰科。金鵰以其突出的外觀和敏捷有力的飛行以著名。金鵰是深棕色的,在小斑上有更浅的金棕色羽毛。这种物种的幼鹰通常在尾部有白色,并且在翅膀上经常具有白色标记。 金鵰利用敏捷和速度加上强大的脚和大量尖锐的爪子来抢夺各种猎物(主要是兔子、旱獭和其他地松鼠)。

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vs you
≈ 1/15th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
4.25 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
48 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Golden eagle

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.25 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male3.57 kgWikidataQ41181
  • Female5.19 kgWikidataQ41181

Figures vary

  • 4.8 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Standing height
0.61 mstanding
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PGC: "standing height is about 2 feet." 2 ft = 0.61 m. ADW and FWS pages give body length (70-84 cm) and wingspan only, not standing height.

Source: Pennsylvania Game Commission, 'Golden Eagle', Discover PA Wildlife, https://www.pa.gov/agencies/pgc/wildlife/discover-pa-wildlife/golden-eagle · see citation

Tail length
0.31 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.6 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
48 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
40 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
4.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Golden eagle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Harpy eagle — last shared an ancestor ≈ 34 million years ago.
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