Great Seal of the United States the crest, he used Hopkinson's constellation of thirteen stars. The motto was "E Pluribus Unum", taken from the first committee, and was on a scroll held in the eagle's beak. An eagle holding symbols of war and peace has a long history, and also echoed the second committee's themes. Franklin owned a 1702 [[emblem book]], which included an eagle with olive branch and arrows near its talons, which may have been a source for Thomson. The arrows also mirror those in the arms of the [[Dutch Republic]], the only country in Europe with a representative government at the time, which
Dietary biology of the golden eagle with some frequency in some areas, but are unknown in other areas. In one instance in Norway, a pair of golden eagles harassed a newly formed pair of white-tailed eagles so persistently that the white-tails abandoned their nesting attempt. This relationship between the two eagle species is particularly aggressive in Scotland where the white-tailed eagle has been reintroduced recently. In the Scottish Highlands, a white-tailed eagle was found dead with talon piercings in its skull likely from a female golden eagle it had been interacting with the previous day. There are at least two known instances of Scottish white-tailed eagles