Golden Eagles are powerful birds that live in high places in Europe, North America, Asia, Alaska and Mexico. They are dark brown with lighter golden brown feathers on their heads. Golden Eagles stay with their parents for 45 days to learn hunting and survival skills before leaving the nest. They hunt rabbits, foxes, and other animals using speed and their large talons. Some cool facts are that Golden Eagles can fly very fast and have better vision than humans.

1. Golden Eagles
By Logan

2. Table of Contents
3 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The yellow is were Golden Eagles
live.

6. 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.

7. This is the size of a Golden Eagles
talons.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

12. Index
Food 9
How the look 6
Parenting 8
Were they live 4

13. 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.

14. Bibliography
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Eagle
• http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/golden-
eagle/
• http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden_Eagle/lifehistory