Golden eagle

Golden eagle
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Golden eagle
Temporal range: Pliocene-recent[1]
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Wintering eagle of the nominate subspecies in Finland.
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call of a Golden Eagle
Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classificationedit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aquila
Species: A. chrysaetos
Binomial name
Aquila chrysaetos
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
6, see text

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Range of A. chrysaetos
Breeding
Resident
Non-breeding
Synonyms
Falco chrysaëtos Linnaeus, 1758
Falco fulvus Linnaeus, 1758

The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best-known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the most widely distributed species of eagle. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae