The Eagle Eye
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🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Bird Note. |
| 0:10.5 | Ever heard the term eagle eye? |
| 0:15.0 | An eagle's vision is incredibly sharp, and its eyes can weigh more than its brain. |
| 0:20.7 | The secret to the bird's exceptional vision is the density of visual cells, the rods and cones of its retina. |
| 0:27.3 | Rods in the eye register the overall shape of objects, while the cones register details, such as contour and color. |
| 0:34.7 | The rods and cones in a raptor's eye may be five times more dense than those in a |
| 0:39.9 | human eye. The Golden Eagle soars on a seven-foot wingspan, riding thermals high into the air. |
| 0:50.1 | From there, it can spot the minute movements of its favorite prey, a rabbit, from over a mile away. |
| 0:56.8 | That's like you driving 40 miles an hour and being able to look back at where you were when this bird note started and spotting that same rabbit. |
| 1:09.0 | Head over to our website, birdnote.org, to learn more. |
| 1:13.2 | For Birdnote, I'm Ashley Ahern. |
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