Great Eagle

Great Eagle is a Bird Wyvern that is predominantly the first thing that hunters fight in the arena as a final test to their training.

Physiology
They're literally just individualised eagles that have grown to a large size due to the high oxygen levels in the world of Monster Hunter.

Behavior
They're fairly aggressive to anything that attempts to attack them, this is due to the fact that they're preyed upon a lot by many monsters: especially Rathalos.

Abilities
It fights with divebombs, claw swipes, beak pecks and mild charges. It is a purely physical fighters and retains no ailment or elemental prowess although its known to be very good at flying: whether its too avoid a pursuit or when defending itself while in the air.

Attacks
Peck: It will aim at at a hunter and then roughly peck at them.

Triple Peck: Same as the Peck attack but does it multiple times (similar fashion to Yian Kut Ku).

Talon Swipe: It raises its left or right leg and then swipes its talons.

Talon Upper-Cut: It mildly backhops as it upper-cuts anyone in front of it with its talons.

Airborne Charge: When airborne, it will charge at the hunter before stopping.

Airborne Peck: When airborne, it will aim and peck at a nearby hunter.

Airborne Talon Swipe: When airborne, it will swipe its talons.

Airborne Talon Upper-Cut: When airborne, it will uppercut hunters with its talons.

Divebomb: When airborne, it fly directly upwards before aiming and divebombing at a targeted hunter.

Island Tour: Great Eagle flies around the map in circles before divebombing at hunters. (Basically the World Tour attack that Rathalos retains).

Role in the Food Chain
Minimal - (Extremely Low) - Low - Average - High - Extremely High - Apex - Legend

Main Prey: Shepherd Hares

Arch-Rivals: Everything else that flies (mostly Rathalos)

Tracks: Craved Prints, Feather Pile

Turf Wars
Great Eagle vs Qurupeco

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Great Eagle vs Rathalos

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Habitat Range
Its been typically found in forested and arid areas: hanging around high altitude regions. This is often not known by hunters as there's often never contracts for the Great Eagle causing trouble or damage to the ecosystem. A huntable creature in the New World but in the Old World, they're not never hunted due to the lack of needs to hunt them as they don't cause trouble compared to their New World counterparts.

Ecological Niche
Incredibly low in the food chain, gets preyed upon by almost everything it shares the skies with. Its razor sharp talons allows it to be able to defend itself against most wingdrakes such as Mernos although even then, the likes of Barnos and Naraztos in groups have been known to kill Great Eagles.

Biological Adaptations
It has a large wingspan that allows it to fly alongside a fairly large size to intimidate small creatures. It retains sharp talons that it can use to physically defend itself.