The picture above has been preying on the pika, in the grasslands of Ruoerge in Sichuan or Gannan in Gansu, if you look closely, you will find the bird of prey that rests on a telephone pole, the giant eagle
Author: Guardian of the Wilderness
Title: The Scoundrel on the Prairie - The Great Eagle (Kuang)
Filming locations: Ruoerge, Sichuan, Maqu, Gansu
Species: Giant Eagle (Scientific name: Buteo hemilasius)
Pictured above is a giant eagle that has been looking for prey on a telephone pole
Species Description:
The great eagle (also known as the earth leopard, prairie eagle) is a bird of prey of the genus Hawks in the family Hawkaceae, resembling an eagle, with an unpaired tail, a brown body, a slightly pale tail, and a white transverse spot under each wing. It often flies high or perches in high treetops, eats rats, pikas, insects and other small animals, occasionally attacks birds, and is a farmer's bird, especially for maintaining the ecological platform of grassland.
The distribution of sub-species is relatively widespread, and it is commonly found in northwest China and other regions, especially in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai and other regions.
At present, the population trend is relative, in a state of no danger; the giant eagle takes rodents and pikas as the main food, plays an important role in the grassland ecosystem, as the guardian of the grassland, the existence of the great eagle effectively regulates the population of rodents such as pikas on the grassland, and plays a great role in grassland protection. However, because some places have the phenomenon of poisoning pikas and so on, it has also led to a decrease in the number of some raptors such as giant eagles, and this problem also needs attention.
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Listed on the IUCN's 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 – No Threatened, (LC).
It is included in the list of second-class protected animals under national key protection in China.