imperial eagle

American  

noun

1. a brown eagle, Aquila heliaca, of Asia and southern Europe: the subspecies A. heliaca adalberti is endangered.

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Example Sentences

Garden gazing balls by Sula Bermúdez-Silverman are grasped by the upright claws of an imperial eagle, the spheres filled with homey substances like hair gel and studded with effete fragments of colonial treasure — bits of coral or silver sugar tongs.

From Los Angeles Times

Featuring a unique combination of sand dunes, forests, and marshes, the 54,000-hectare Doñana park in southern Spain is a hot spot for a half-million migratory birds and a haven for endangered species, including the Iberian lynx and the Spanish imperial eagle.

From Science Magazine

Donana boasts lagoons, marshlands, scrub woodland, beaches and sand dunes and is home to fallow deer, badgers and endangered species including the Spanish imperial eagle and the Iberian lynx.

From Reuters

About 100 miles to the east as the Spanish imperial eagle flies lies Hondarribia, hometown of José María Olazábal, who won two Masters in the 1990s.

From Washington Post

“The eagle is not, and was never intended to be the Reichsadler,” he said in a direct message on Twitter, referring to the “Imperial Eagle” used by, among others, Nazi Germany.

From Washington Post