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Hard Truth the Three Foot Harpy Eagle Is Disappearing Across Its Range

A giant forest eagle has a fighting chance, but only if habitat protection, local enforcement and community action scale fast ...

Meet the 3-foot-tall ‘monkey-eating’ bird: The World’s largest Eagle on the verge of extinction

Standing 3 feet tall with a wingspan over 6 feet, the Philippine eagle rules the rainforest skies. But why is this powerful ...
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Giant eagle with 7ft wingspan so powerful she can wipe handlers off their feet

Heika, a seven-year-old Steller’s sea eagle at Gauntlet Birds of Prey, has a wingspan of seven feet and talons bigger than a human hand. Visitors are stunned as she soars overhead, weighing around ...

What’s Minnesota’s largest raptor? Hint: it might not be the bald eagle

MINNEAPOLIS — Look at the armpits — or, technically, the “wingpits.” That’s what Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., told a group of bird watchers recently ...
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"The blow was unbelievably powerful, like being hit with a baseball bat. To make it worse, one of her talons pierced my neck, leaving it numb and bleeding."

The harpies were mythological spirits that took the dead to hell, but this harpy eagle was intent on taking James out.