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Description: | Spanish Imperial Eagles feed mainly on rabbits. However, they will take a variety of animals as prey depending on where they live. Birds living near water often feed on ducks and geese. This bird has been mounted with a Red Legged Partridge, another bird that is sometimes taken. The recent decline in eagle numbers has been linked to epidemics of Myxomatosis and Viral Haemorrhagic Pneumonia in the rabbit population, which has vastly reduced the food available to the eagles.
, Age: immature, Form: mount | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.vertebratezoology.27708 | Go to resource |
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