"Golden eagle"

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Golden Eagle is a day-old predator, one of the eagles that also respond to the Greek space. The scientific name of the species is Aquila chrysaetos and includes 6 subspecies.

In Greece it responds mainly to the subspecies A. c. chrysaetos but, apart from the specific subspecies that remains in the country throughout the year as an epidemic, there are also individuals of subspecies A. c. homeyeri who pass through the Greek area during their migration to the east, especially in Crete.
For centuries, this species has been one of those widely used in the priesthood, with the Eurasian subspecies having become a legend, because it was capable of hunting even wolves, in certain territories. This is why the golden eagle is even treated today with great "mystic" reverence in some ancient tribes of natives. It is one of the most extensively studied predatory birds in the world in some parts of its distribution spectrum, such as in the US and D. Eurasia. It is no coincidence that, in most countries to which he responds, the general name eagle coincides with the golden eagle.

World population trend
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Nomenclature
The Latin word Aquila for the most important genus of eagles, corresponds to the Greek Eagle, comes from the aquilus "dark color" and, probably, relates to the most common coloration of the bird's wing, which is dark.

All three names of the species, Latin chrysaetos, English (Golden Eagle) and Greek, refer directly to the golden hue of the bird's neck.

Systematic taxonomics
The golden eagle was described by Linnaeus, in his work Systema Naturae as Falco chrysaetos (Sweden, 1758). He was later transferred to the new genus Aquila by French ornithologist M. Brisson (Mathurin Jacques Brisson, 1723 – 1806), in 1760. Last surveys show that it is a superspecies, along with Aquila verreauxii species, Aquila gurneyi and Aquila audax.

France's largest gold eagles (probably elsewhere) from the Middle Pleistocene are referred to as the paleosubspecies Aquila chrysaetos bonifacti, while the huge specimens of the Late Pleistocene from Crete have been named as Aquila chrysaetos simurg. Similarly, a primordial golden eagle, with a heavier, wider skull, larger wings and shorter tarsus than the artigon birds, has been found in La Brea Tar Pits, New California.
The case of another subspecies, which lives in Ethiopia and has not yet been named, is being investigated because of insufficient data. Currently included in A. c. homeyeri.

Geographical spread

The golden eagle is, perhaps, the most popular predator that responds to the Northern Hemisphere, (economies: Palearctic, Afrotropic, Indomal and Young)], either as an epidemic bird, or as a summer breeding or winter visitor. Its total territory includes all three categories of movement mentioned above, in zones where the