My ample opportunities of fully observing these interesting birds
in
captivity as well as in a state of freedom,
and indeed all that I have
seen of them--their magnificent bearing; their objection to carrion,
and
strictly carnivorous tastes--would make me rank these
winged tigers
among the most pronounced and savage of the birds of prey
-Ernest T. Seton, Life histories of North American birds of prey (1890)
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