The longest-lived bird in the world

The red eagle is a bird of the order Falconiformes, which can live up to 70 years, which is a very long life span among birds.

Red eagles are found on many islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are very fast, have excellent eyesight and are very ferocious, so many hunters use the "boiling eagle" method to tame them and use them to catch hares.

The price of longevity

Although the red eagle has a life expectancy of up to 70 years, however, this longevity comes at a price.

If it wants to live to 70 years, then it must be reborn once at the age of 40.

Because, at the age of 40, its claws will age, making it difficult to catch food, its wings will become thick and heavy, and it will struggle to fly, and its beak will become long and curved, making it difficult to tear open food. At this time, the red eagle either waits for death or undergoes a painful metamorphosis.

Spirit of the Red Eagle

This metamorphosis process, which lasts up to 150 days, requires red eagles to fly very hard to the cliff to build a nest and settle, and they cannot fly again during the metamorphosis process.

After building the nest, they will pound the rocks with their beaks until they all fall off and wait for the new beaks to grow. After the new beaks grow, they have to use their beaks to pluck off the toenails one by one until their bloodied claws grow sharp new toenails.

Then, the red eagles use their new toenails to pluck out all the heavy feathers on their bodies until, five months later, new, lighter feathers grow.

At this time, everything about the red eagle is new, and it can fly again and gain thirty years of life again. This indomitable, death-defying spirit of the red eagle is worth learning from!