Golden EaglesBy Logan

Table of Contents3 What’s a Golden Eagle?

4 Where do Golden Eagles live?

6 What do they look like?

8 How is parenting?

9 What do they eat?

10 Cool facts

11 Glossary

12 index

13 about the author

14 bibliography

What’s a Golden Eagle?

A Golden Eagle is a powerful bird. It can fly very well. In this book, I will tell you about the Golden Eagle.

Where do Golden Eagles live?

The Golden Eagle lives in Europe, North America, Asia, Alaska and Mexico. They live in high places such as mountains and telephone poles.

The yellow is were Golden Eagles live.

What do Golden Eagles look like?The Golden Eagles are dark brown with lighter golden brown on the head. The Golden Eagle weighs from 6 to 15 pounds. The Golden Eagles wing span goes up to 6 feet and 2 inches.

This is the size of a Golden Eagles talons.

How is parenting?Golden Eagles stay with their parent for 45 days. In the 45 days, they learn to hunt and survive. Golden eagles mate for several years. Golden Eagles lay one to four eggs. A pair of Golden Eagles will stay together for life.

What does it eat?The Golden Eagle uses its speed, agility and talons to catch its food. Golden Eagles eat rabbits, marmots, squirrels, fox, young ungulates, carrion, bird, swans, cranes and grey wolves. Golden Eagles often hunt in pairs and they trap there prey so it has no wear to run.

Cool facts.The Golden Eagle is Mexico’s national bird. The Golden Eagle can quarry at speeds of more than 150 to 241 kilometers per hour. Golden Eagles are illegal to kill. Golden Eagles have better vision then a human but are the same eyesight as the human in the dark. Golden eagles have clear eye lids to protect its eyes from dust and dirt.

Glossary Illegal (ill-eg-ool)means that you can’t do something

or you will go to jail

Prey (pr-ay) means that it hunts it

Quarry (qu-ar-ry) means to fly

IndexFood 9

How the look 6

Parenting 8

Were they live 4

About the author I am nine years old when writing this book. I am writing this for an assignment in 3rd grade. I chose the Golden Eagle for the assignment because of how strong, fast and how big the talons are. I live in Alabama. I go to Shades Mountain Elementary School.

Bibliography• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Eagle

• http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/golden-eagle/

• http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden_Eagle/lifehistory