subject: Massive Birds Of America [print this page] The Golden Eagle is found over most of North America, though much additional commonly within the north and west. It's found also within the Recent World, ranging south to North Africa and also the Himalayas in Asia. It's a lot of commonly a bird of the interior, choosing mountains for its home. It builds its nesting platform of sticks and straw within the tops of tall trees or on some inaccessible rocky ledge. The chief food is ground squirrels, prairie dogs, rabbits and different tiny mammals. These it catches by swooping swiftly down upon them. The eagles typically hunt in pairs. There are sometimes 2 white eggs that are typically marked with blotches of brown. These are incubated for regarding a month and also the young eaglets are covered with white down. It is almost 3 months additional before they are totally feathered and able to soar out from the home nest to affix the hunt with their elders. The immature golden eagle differs from the young bald eagle in having legs feathered down to the toes, and therefore can invariably be identified, whereas in other respects they're a lot of alike. Eagles have ever been irresistible targets for the rifleman.
The California Condor is the biggest bird that flies in North America, and was once quite abundant within the coastal regions of California, and Oregon, and southward into Mexico. They are birds that mate for life, and when one among the try meets with death, either from natural causes or thanks to man's intervention, there's one more lone bird. Some years ago ranchers put out poisoned meat to kill off coyotes. This was taken by the condors, and therefore the species neared extinction. Now there are terribly few left and in all probability most of them are mateless birds. The nesting place is typically quite inaccessible, either on the bare floor of a cave-like recess high up among the rocks or in the hollow high of a stump many feet tall. There are one or two eggs, a lot of typically one, thus the rise has been insufficient to stay the race alive. The young are coated with white down and have yellow bills. When they are feathered they're lined with sooty gray, and therefore the neck and bill are black. There have been many of these birds in Zoological Parks in varied components of the country. They're light birds and solicitous parents.
Turkey Vultures when in flight are among the foremost swish birds. Their flight appears therefore easy and their widespread wings and long, rounded tails make pretty silhouettes as they soar regarding for hours at a time. Should a bird spy food below he would drop instantly, to be followed by one and another until all the vultures within the neighborhood were collected for a feast. They are scavengers and helpful keep the bottom further from animal refuse. They're not thus numerous in some components of their range as formerly, as a result of many have eaten poisoned meat put out for predatory' animals.
