Comments on: The largest and most powerful birds of prey – Top 10

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 14:55:18 +0000

In reply to Alberic. I just wonder why the eagle was hunting the wolf. The wolf is a predator and is not an easy prey. Maybe it was an eagle trained for hunting.

By: Alberic

Alberic — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:51:22 +0000

In my own experience, Golden Eagle is the best hunter. During our 4×4 adventure in Northern Mongolia, me and my friends witnessed Golden Eagle preys on a Grey Wolf. We didn’t know how that started it. They’re already locked up when we’re noticed them from the Hill. A Wolf was bigger than our German and Italian wolves. He tried to roll off from her grip. But she grabbed him by his back of the neck and right side of the shoulder blade. They’re wrestling for almost 4 minutes and Eagle bites off chunks of fur and fleshes from the back of the wolf’s skull and bloodied him. My friend Philip has three black and white photos on his Wall. Since that time we respected the eagles. Especially The Golden Eagles.

By: AldoTeo

AldoTeo — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:31:13 +0000

The Crowned eagle has been documented on several occasions to attack humans who approach their nests, and even to attack and eat human children. On one occasion attacking a 7 year old boy weighing approximately 20kg, digging it’s talons into the child’s throat and chest, who only survived because he was saved by a woman wielding a hoe.

By: Cameron from Cumbria

Cameron from Cumbria — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 02:05:49 +0000

totally disagree, Golden Eagle is by far the most powerful eagle ,the psychopath of all avian predators, i have worked with and studied Goldies for many years and i dont think there is another bird on earth what hunts such a huge range of species. There is only humans who its wary of everything else is potential prey, it has even been known to try and take horses in mexico.

By: David

David — Wed, 11 May 2016 12:25:05 +0000

Philippine monkey-eating eagle was also documented taking on a large reticulated python, it was a long grueling fight between the snake and the largest eagle in the world, the eagle survived the ordeal and was captured by the villagers due to exhaustion. No other eagle specie on record dare to take on a large constrictor like the Philippine eagle the largest and most powerful eagle on the planet.

By: anonymous 2016

anonymous 2016 — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:57:57 +0000

Quote: “Regarding the Philippine eagle and harpy eagle – although both birds hunt for monkeys, a smaller part of their diet consists of large animals than it is in case of a crowned eagle.” Eagles are confine only to the prey available to their home-range especially if they are non- migratory and highly territorial like the Harpy and Philippine eagles they will take what is available prey Harpy eagle evolved in hunting to the forest canopy snaching its favorite and easy target prey like sloth, small monkeys and birds it develop a thick legs and long large talong in pulling sloths and monkeys from the tree, while the Philippine eagle had to take prey from a 10 gram small bat to as big as a medium size deer there are no large mammalian prey the Philippine forest there is only one specie of monkey in the Philippines the long-tailed macaque which can weigh 8-20 lb deer are a very special treat for the eagle they are very scarce unlike in Africa where the choice of available prey is wide. Crowned hawk-eagle and Martial eagle known to take large bush buck or deer the Martial eagle although it feeds primarily on birds has the largest prey taken – “Martial eagles have predated adult duikers weighing up to 37 kg (82 lbs), perhaps the heaviest live prey item recorded.

By: David of Manila

David of Manila — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:50:40 +0000

The largest and most powerful eagle is the one that can tackles dangerous prey such as large snakes, monitor lzards, large monkeys, dogs and small pigs. Any large eagle can kill a deer or dulkiers regardless of how big or heavy it is, deer are simply no match to aireal predator like these powerful large eagles armed with razor sharp talons and a tremendous powerful grip, the one that could kill and lift the heaviest prey 3 to 4 times heavier than it self carrying up to its best is undoubtedly the Most powerful eagle and that is the Philippine monkey-eating eagle it feeds on a variety of prey like civets, giant cloud rat, large snakes, monitor lizard, colugos, giant fruit bat, small dog and pigs Philippine eagle was also found to have a 14 kg (30 lb) Philippine cervus deer up to its nest. Source: Threatened Birds of Asia.