Birds of Prey – The Difference between Eagles and Hawks

Eagles

Most people often interchange the most known “predator of the air”; the Eagle with its much smaller yet swifter cousin, the Hawk. It is a common mistake that occurs due to the fact that both are recorded through ancient history in various classic cultures like the Greeks who saw the high god Zeus as an eagle while ancient Egyptians revered Horus whose head was that of a hawk. The key difference to spotting eagles from hawks would be in the beak point, the stockiness and the length of the talons. Eagles are much bigger, more muscular and with bigger claws and shorter beaks than that of a hawk, which is why it is the ultimate predator in the sky.