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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Golden Eagle

Hebrides bird sightings: Golden Eagle

 

Golden Eagle

Aquila chrysaetos

Gaelic: Iolair-dhubh

 

Photograph © Carl Chapman
Isle of Harris - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
April 2007

"3 Golden Eagles today ... to me they are incredible) including a pair displaying - never seen this before. I was close enough to the male to hear him call as he stooped and climbed - fascinating..."

 

Our golden eagle photographs:

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golden eagle
Isle of Lewis
June 2006
golden eagle
North Uist
August 2006
golden eagle
with hooded crows
size comparison
golden eagle
Isle of Harris
April 2007
golden eagle
with common gull
size comparison
May 2007
golden eagle
South Uist
December 2007

Two or more eagles are called an aerie, convocation, jubilee, soar, or spread of eagles

Other local bird photographs


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