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3D scan of skeleton. Aquila is the genus of true eagles.The genus name is Latin for "eagle", possibly derived from aquilus, "dark in colour". [1] It is often united with the sea eagles, buteos, and other more heavyset Accipitridae, but more recently they appear to be less distinct from the slenderer accipitrine hawks than previously believed.
The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere.It is the most widely distributed species of eagle.Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae.
Eagle is the common name for the golden eagle, bald eagle, and other birds of prey in the family of the Accipitridae.Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related.
The eastern imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca) is a large bird of prey that breeds in southeastern Europe and extensively through West and Central Asia.Most populations are migratory and winter in northeastern Africa, the Middle East and South and East Asia. [3]
Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata) is a large bird of prey.The common name of the bird commemorates the Italian ornithologist and collector Franco Andrea Bonelli.Bonelli is credited with gathering the type specimen, most likely from an exploration of Sardinia.
Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator.Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greek-Roman mythology.
Roman ornament with an aquila (100–200 AD) from the Cleveland Museum of Art A modern reconstruction of an aquila. An aquila (Classical Latin: [ˈakᶣɪla]; lit. ' eagle ') was a prominent symbol used in ancient Rome, especially as the standard of a Roman legion.
The black kite was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1770. [3] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [4]