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==Use as symbols==
 
==Use as symbols==
 
[[Image:Mexican arms.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Golden Eagle (''Aquila chrysaetos'') featured in an Aztec legend, now the current arms of Mexico]]
 
[[Image:Mexican arms.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Golden Eagle (''Aquila chrysaetos'') featured in an Aztec legend, now the current arms of Mexico]]
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Eagles have been used as symbolds of government and imperial power since at least the time of the [[Babylon]]ians.  In styalized form they have been placed atop the standards of ancient [[Persia]] and Imperial [[Rome]].  A two-headed eagle was used as a coat of arms for the [[Byzantine Empire]], than later as the standard for Czarist Russia and the Hapsburg [[Austrian Empire]].  An [[Azte]]c legend of an eagle clutching a snake while sitting on a cactus led to the founding of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, and later became the coat of arms for [[Mexico]].  The [[United States]] adopted the bald eagle (''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'') as its national emblem.
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Eagles have been used as symbolds of government and imperial power since at least the time of the [[Babylon]]ians.  In stylized form they have been placed atop the standards of ancient [[Persia]] and Imperial [[Rome]].  A two-headed eagle was used as a coat of arms for the [[Byzantine Empire]], than later as the standard for Czarist Russia and the Hapsburg [[Austrian Empire]].  An [[Azte]]c legend of an eagle clutching a snake while sitting on a cactus led to the founding of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, and later became the coat of arms for [[Mexico]].  The [[United States]] adopted the bald eagle (''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'') as its national emblem.
    
== Species of eagle ==
 
== Species of eagle ==
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