The next day

As soon as the day dawned, everyone packed their luggage and reluctantly left the beautiful hot spring valley to continue the new day's investigation.

The place where you are going today is called Eagle Rock, and instead of a rock, it is a steep cliff.

After about two hours of walking on the rugged mountain road, through the high mountains, out of the last dense forest, everyone finally came to an open mountain field.

As far as the eye can see, there is a towering cliff in front of you, towering and majestic, standing in front of it, you feel that human beings are so small.

Suddenly, an eagle roar pierced the sky, breaking the silence of Eagle Rock in one fell swoop.

I saw a huge eagle leaping up from the cliff, soaring into the sky, soaring wantonly in the sky, like a king patrolling his territory, majestic.

"Suffer!!" Suddenly Zhang Feng seemed to think of something, and then his face changed greatly.

"What's wrong Xiaofeng??" Seeing Zhang Feng's changes, Lord Ran hurriedly asked.

However, before Zhang Feng could answer, a bigger and more majestic eagle soared into the sky, like lightning, straight into the nine heavens.

When the eagle in the sky found that a similar kind had intruded into his territory, he was furious, and instantly swooped towards Zhang Feng's sparrowhawk, as if he wanted to use the advantage of height to defeat this intruder.

"Oh no, the golden eagle is going to fight the sparrowhawk!!"

In the face of the menacing golden eagle, the sparrowhawk was not afraid, went against the sky, quickly rose into the air, and dodged the first attack of the golden eagle.

In this way, the two attacked and defended in different positions, and the golden eagle lost its altitude advantage, but the sparrowhawk flew into the air, and then turned around flexibly, and immediately pounced on the golden eagle.

Watching the two birds of prey fighting in the sky, it was like a fierce air battle, the two sides came and went, and they seemed to be evenly matched, but only Zhang Feng knew that his own sparrowhawk must not have started to exert its strength, because after the transformation of the Qiling Pill, the combat effectiveness of the sparrowhawk has far exceeded that of ordinary birds of prey.

However, it seems that the golden eagle's constant provocation completely angered the sparrowhawk, and the sparrowhawk began to get serious, and in the new round of confrontation, one claw grabbed the golden eagle's wings, and hit its vital point with a blow, so that the feathers on the golden eagle's wings fell off.

A wail pierced the sky, and the golden eagle's flight attitude became crooked, as if it had really suffered a lot of damage.

Seeing this, the experts below were all worried and hurriedly asked Zhang Feng for help.

"Xiaofeng, can you separate them??"

Seeing everyone looking at him with blazing eyes, Zhang Feng immediately nodded, and then shouted loudly to the sparrowhawk in the sky: "Little sparrow, come back!!"

Hearing the call of its master, the sparrowhawk looked at the golden eagle that was a little afraid of him, and finally turned around and flew back, flew in front of Zhang Feng with a swoop, and rubbed his body affectionately with its head.

Seeing the intruder leaving, the golden eagle did not dare to continue to provoke, and fled back to his lair in ashes, hiding on the cliff to heal silently.

"Finally separated!" The experts breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the battle between the two.

This is the golden eagle and the mutated sparrowhawk, if any of the two are injured, everyone will be worried about death, but fortunately, now the battle between the two sides is finally over, and the situation is not bad, although the golden eagle is injured, but it should not be serious.

After the war, Professor Zhou asked the two young team members to hurry to find the feathers dropped by the golden eagle, which is also a rare good thing for biologists.

Because wild golden eagles are rare, especially in China, such birds of prey are even rarer.

"Professor Zhou, is this really a golden eagle??"

Everyone was stunned to find the golden eagle in Qinglong Mountain, even if they saw it with their own eyes just now, they still couldn't believe their eyes.

This is the king of birds of prey, arguably one of the fiercest birds of prey in the world.

In Huaxia, it is the same as Hai Dongqing, it is a legendary existence.

"Well, this is indeed a golden eagle!"

The golden eagle belongs to the eagle family and is a well-known bird of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Golden eagles are known for their prominent appearance and agile and powerful flight, with an average wingspan of more than 2 meters and a body length of up to 1 meter, with feathers covering all of their legs and claws.

It generally lives in mountainous or hilly areas, especially in valley cliffs and nests in mountain wall protrusions. It inhabits alpine grasslands, deserts, river valleys and forests, and often goes to mountainous hills and foothills in winter, with a maximum altitude of more than 4,000 meters. Feeds on large and medium-sized birds and mammals. It is distributed in temperate, subarctic and boreal regions of the northern hemisphere.

"Doesn't golden eagles generally live in the north?" asked a young expedition member curiously.

"Hehe, golden eagles do generally live in the north, but in fact, they are also distributed in the south, such as Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and other regions. Professor Zhou explained with a slight smile.

The golden eagle is a large bird of prey. The total length is 76--102 cm, the wingspan reaches 2.3 meters, and the weight is 2--6.5 kg. The top of the head is black-brown, the tips of the feathers from the back of the head to the back of the neck are long, willow-shaped, the base of the feathers is dark russet, the tips of the feathers are golden yellow, and the dry lines of the feathers are black-brown. The upper body is dark brown, the shoulders are lighter, and the dorsal shoulders are slightly purple luster;

Golden eagles live in grasslands, deserts, river valleys, especially in alpine coniferous forests, and are often active in mountainous hills and plains at the foot of mountains in winter, reaching an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.

Usually moving alone or in pairs, they sometimes form smaller groups in winter, but large groups of about 20 can occasionally be seen gathering together to catch larger prey.

It is good at soaring and gliding, often hovering in a straight line or circle in the air, looking down at the ground to look for prey, raising its wings in a "V" shape, and using soft and flexible wings and tail changes to adjust the direction, altitude, speed and flight posture of flight.

After spotting a target, it often descends from the sky at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, and at the last moment abruptly stops flapping its wings, then firmly grasps the head of the prey, and plunges its claws into the skull of the prey, causing it to die instantly. It preys on dozens of prey, such as geese and ducks, pheasants, squirrels, roe deer, deer, goats, foxes, marmots, hares, etc., and sometimes eats small beasts such as rats.

The trained golden eagle can chase the wolf for a long distance on the grassland, and when the wolf is tired, one paw grabs its neck, one paw grabs its eye, so that the wolf loses the ability to resist, and there has been a record of a golden eagle catching 14 wolves. In contrast, it has a poor carrying capacity, with a weight capacity of less than 1 kg.

When a large prey is caught, it is dismembered on the ground, eating the good meat and internal organs such as the heart, liver, and lungs, and then dividing the rest in half and bringing it back to the place where it lofts in batches.

"Tsk!!" Hearing that the golden eagle was so fierce, Zhang Feng was also amazed!!

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