Eagle

Any large rapacious bird of the Falcon family esp of the genera Aquila and Haliaeligetus The eagle is remarkable for strength size graceful figure keenness of vision and extraordinary flight The most noted species are the golden eagle Aquila chrysaeumltus the imperial eagle of Europe Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis the American bald eagle Haliaeligetus leucocephalus the European sea eagle Haliaeligetus albicilla and the great harpy eagle Thrasaetus harpyia The figure of the eagle as the king of birds is commonly used as an heraldic emblem and also for standards and emblematic devices See Bald eagle Harpy and Golden eagle