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'''Giant eagles''' are the over-sized version of [[eagle]]s, found in the same wide array of [[biome]]s. They can be extremely annoying to an early fortress due to their ability to fly over your fortress defenses and kill your unarmed civilians. Unlike [[giant kea|other aerial pests]], giant eagles will generally not path into your fortress, and usually only attack if provoked. They may also appear as [[mount]]s during a [[siege]], resulting in a highly-maneuverable and dangerous squad of attackers.
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'''Giant eagles''' are the oversized version of [[eagle]]s, found in the same wide array of biomes. They can be extremely annoying to an early fortress due to them killing your migrants mercilessly and flying over your walls, yet usually only do so if provoked. They can be tamed, but not trained, and while they share with eagles their relative uselessness for [[egg production]] due to the low amount of eggs laid, but are a better choice for the [[meat industry]] thanks to their larger size, yielding more than twice the amount of food than regular eagles; however, this requires watching [[nest box]]es closely to prevent the eggs being taken by hauling dwarves. They can come already tamed with [[elf|elven]] [[caravan|caravans]], if the elven [[civilization]] is situated in a mountain area.
  
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Captured giant eagles may be kept as exotic pets, requiring substantial time and effort to tame. Unfortunately, they cannot be trained to increase their combat effectiveness. [[elf|Elven]] [[caravan|caravans]] may offer to trade tame giant eagles if the elven [[civilization]] is situated in a mountainous area.
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Giant Eagles are exotic creatures. Their eggs take approximately six months of gametime to hatch; if eggs haven't hatched and it's been over six months, then something's gone wrong -- either they weren't fertilized, the mother was forced out of the nest box, your fort has hit a cap on total animals, or something else -- and you'll need to remove those eggs and force new ones to be laid if you want hatchlings. Once hatched, hatchlings take approximately an additional year to reach adulthood.
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Giant eagles are relatively useless for [[egg production]] thanks to their small clutch sizes, but they are a viable choice for your [[meat industry]], yielding a respectable amount of food without [[grazer|grazing]]. Their [[egg]]s take approximately six months of gametime to hatch; if eggs haven't hatched in seven months then something has gone wrong -- either they weren't fertilized, the mother was forced out of the nest box, your fort has hit a cap on total animals, or something else -- and you'll need to remove those eggs to allow new ones to be laid. Once hatched, giant eagle hatchlings take roughly one year to reach adulthood.
 
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There is a current bug where tamed animals that have the [FLYING] tag won't actually fly. Once tamed, your giant eagles will remain earthbound and never take to the sky, which makes them somewhat less deadly than they would otherwise be.
 
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Through the use of the latest magma-powered and minecart driven science, we have solved the riddle of whether a dwarf carrying a ◄gold ring► can be flown to a volcano to dispose of said ring. It cannot.
 
  
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There is a current bug where tamed animals that have the [FLYING] tag, don't. So once tamed, your giant eagles will remain earthbound and never take to the sky, which makes them somewhat less deadly than they would be otherwise.
 
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