There is, though, an extant eagle in Africa, Asia, and Europe called the bearded vulture, or lammergeier, which behaves much like the rukh, Kaplan notes. It’s a scavenger, but not a big enough ...

Before the Mighty Eagle, Angry Birds was just slinging irate avian creatures at pig-like blobs. But after His Mightiness arrived, Rovio's hit mobile game became a test of ultimate destruction.

Observers say it was cruel, but a state raptor specialist sums things up this way to the AP: "The nest cam is more of a mirror to reflect what's going on with all eagle nests. It's not to be used ...

On our way down to the lobby post-interview, the Mighty Eagle mentioned that Rovio is trying to leverage the Chinese market as much as possible. He said the number of copy cat Angry Birds products ...