golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Description
Aquila chrysaetos
Date circa 1886
Source Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th ed., vol. 1, plate after p. 120
Author Unknown, scanned by Benmil222
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aquila_chrysaetos.jpg
The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best-known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the most widely distributed species of eagle. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Despite being extirpated from or uncommon in some of its former range, the species is still fairly ubiquitous, being present in sizeable stretches of Eurasia, North America, and parts of North Africa.