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Published: 2011-01-03 14:35:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 18076; Favourites: 691; Downloads: 865
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Golden Eagle head at different angles reference. Modeled by two captive female Golden Eagles. The older one (darker eyes) is one of my favorite birds. She is a very small female (smaller than some of the males the center has rehabilitated) and has lived in captivity nearly thirty years. She was severely wounded by gunshot as a young adult and had to have her wing amputated; however, she doesn't let that slow her down. She climbs all over her cage, in and out of her bathtub (she loves a shower) and plays with enrichment items. The younger adult eagle is the biggest bird we have at the rehab center, and the largest Golden Eagle I've ever seen in person.Feel free to download for personal use. Not for photo-manipulation. The older girl's beak is a better ref of appropriate length in a wild bird (captive bird beaks do not usually receive as much wear, and grow longer), as the younger girl (who is higher-strung) needs to be coped in some of these pictures.
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very handy reference! Thanks for sharing!
beautiful bird
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What a beautiful bird~! And all of these shots gave me exactly what I needed for a sight reference for beaks~
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Really nice! Thanks a lot for posting this. Really cool to see a whole bunch of angles like this for references.
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This is next on my sketch list.... thanks again for compiling these!!
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They're so beautiful! Especially the darker-eyed one, she's lovely. Such a noble looking bird!
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No; owning eagle feathers without permit is illegal in the United States.
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O.o Beautiful, and exactly what I've been looking for. Mind if I use one for a forum signature?
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They're more meant to be used for reference than as stock images.
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Fair enough. Next time I'm drawing I'm so going to use them. It's so hard to find pictures...
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FANTASTIC! These are going to make awesome references! And the photos are really well done!
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One of my favorite animals. <3 I'd better try drawing one soon, using these references!
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Awesomeness!
Would you mind if I use these headshots as a reference, I'm interested how to draw eagles and other birds, so yeah
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Of course not, that's why I made them!
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Oh, thank you so much! I will credit thanks for you when I probably upload some hawk pictures
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This will come in handy 
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I swear Ciameth, these bird refs are the best thing in the WORLD. You are the most amazing person for posting them *_*
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Thanks 
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*butts in rudely* H... h-harpy... you said harpy? Oh god... *dies and goes to heaven*
*comes back* I wholeheartedly agree - these references are indescribably useful, and you're very, very super-generous for sharing them with us. Thank you! ;___;
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I know; Harpy eagles are incredible! I had to pass up a summer internship in South America tracking Harpies that would have involved handling them (!!!!) because the stipend paid did not even begin to cover travel and living costs, and college drained all my money. I'm starting to apply to every zoo and wild bird position I can find. Hopefully I get one of them; if not, I'm applying for that internship again next year. It would be worth the expense!
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Woooow, that sounds SO cool! Man, if I wasnβt so damn poor and terribly afraid of spidersβ¦ sounds like it would be an absolute blast. 
That sentence sounded weirdβ¦ O__Γ³ β¦ Iβll blame it on lack of sleep. Best of luck to you!
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Yes!
I'm so glad that I happened upon this! really useful c:
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This really came in handy for my latest feather painting
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Hah, I love #4! The expression is priceless. Very nice view charts by the way, great work ^^
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Oh wow...why didn't I find the Goldens before? As always...thank you. You rock. But you know that.
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This is going to be SO handy for my next gryph drawing! What a great idea, keep it up! <3
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So beautiful
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Thank you!!! I've been mostly right without ref.
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I have tons of photos of Eagle heads for reference, and you have resumed them all in just one picture.
This collage is truly useful, thank you very much for taking the job of doing it
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Wow, that's really useful! Thank you very much!
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This is an awesome reference! I always need more practice on birds and all the shots I'd need are right here!
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That's probably close to what she's thinking; I think she could see her reflection in the lens
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Very nice! I love all these head angles, and eagles are especially helpful for me
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Amazingly helpful reference. Exactly what I'd want to be shown when I want to draw an eagle.
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Got curious about coping and just read up on it. Sounds like a scary job to do! Partly regarding self-preservation, but also because it seems like it would be easy to slip up and hurt the bird. Do you do the coping? If so, my hat is off to you!
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I'm learning, but my supervisor does most of the coping at the center. It is really easy to screw up and damage the beak if you don't know what you're doing. I definitely don't enjoy doing it, but if I'm going to have to trim beaks occasionally, I want to be able to do it well.
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this is really helpful! and just wondering what is it when you said she needs to have her beak coped?
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The part of the upper beak that curves down can get too long on captive birds because sometimes they don't wear it down enough. Like fingernails, it keeps growing. If it got too long, she could have a problem eating. But it's also hard to trim when it's too long, so we trim it when it's just a little too long to prevent trouble later. However, she gets stressed out easily so we also don't want to trim it too frequently--hence it looking slightly too long for a wild bird in some of the pictures.
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oh thats really interesting! i would have never thought there beaks grew, thank you!
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I love you. Seriously.
This will help me SO MUCH.
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No problem! Will there be GRYPHONS coming out of this which is totally what I use my own refs for, I need to draw more actual birds?
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YES, MANY MANY GRYPHONS!
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This is absolutely fantastic! Thank you!
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