Eagle
n.
Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliæetus . The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaëtus ); the imperial eagle of Europe ( Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis ); the American bald eagle ( Haliæetus leucocephalus ); the European sea eagle ( Haliæetus albicilla ); and the great harpy eagle ( Thrasaetus harpyia ). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle , Harpy , and Golden eagle .
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