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The eagle are big diurnal rapacious bird (the more' great Italian) present not only on the Alps.
Its territory of flight reaches the 200 Km. The females have a' opening to haul up to 2,3 and she can weigh over the 6 Kg and a length of around 80 cm. The males are smaller: they hardly reach an opening to haul of 2 m, with a varying weight from the 2,5/4,5 Kg. The young samples introduce white stains under the wings and at the base of the tail.
The adult subjects have coloration brown-dark uniform, with gilded tones in the superior part of the neck. Le pens to the extremities of the wings, are similar to fingers, and they serve to regulate the flow of air, allowing so to the eagle to slowly fly without going to stalemate. It perfectly exploits winds and tides.
The tail is ample and long, the legs are feathered, the eyes are great, direzionati frontally, allowing the royal eagle an ample vision binoculare.Rinomata its sight, around eight times more acute than that human.
The adult samples are a little noisy, rarely and only in the period of reproduction (March-July), they send forth sounds. Very beautiful it is the courting.
The young people are very noisy, both in the antecedent period the first flight, both when they leave the nest; this to recall the attention of her parents.
The kind is longeva. she can reach 15/20 years of life in liberty; she can reach 50 years in captivity.
she lives in the environment of tall mountain (grasslands of tall quota), populated by his/her preys, and they love a little accessible and calm places.
The couples of royal eagle unite him for the life, and when you/they have established her own territory, they remain you for years.
The nest (between the 800 and the 1.200 ms of quota, of around 1 meter thickness and two meters diameter, built with branches, leaves, grass and hair), she is used by the royal eagles for some generations, and she is abandoned in case of shortage of food.
And' built on inaccessible rocky spurs, but also on trees, in lower position in comparison to the territory of hunting, to avoid fatiguing you go up again after the game.
L' real Aquila is able of to chase preys of middle and big cut: marmots, hares, small of chamois, of roe, of fox, rates, wild cats, squirrels, snakes, coturnici and other birds of averages dimensions; in the winter period, it also nourishes him of carrion, and it is able of it bears long periods of fast.
When hunting, flies to low quota, suddenly launching herself on the preys, while the small birds are captured in flight.
The prey is seized with the powerful, long and well sharp claws, she is done asunder with the powerful person beak adunco.
The female can use him with the delicacy when she nourishes his small. The back claw, from the bent form, it is the principal weapon to kill the victims. |
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