Eagle ASCII art drawn for this page: 32 pieces in keyboard characters. Eagles perched and in flight, a head in profile, four feathers, talons, a nest of eaglets, and two kinds people ask for by name, bald and Roman.
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Bald eagle text art
The 3 pieces under Bald eagles fill the dark body with number signs and leave the white parts empty, because an adult bald eagle is dark brown, its head and tail white. Bald eagle on a branch is the tallest of them, 11 lines.
Roman eagle text art
A Roman legion carried one eagle as its standard, with its wings stretched upwards. Roman eagle standard sets it on a pole, 11 lines high; Small Roman eagle does the same in five; Roman eagle, wings up is the eagle alone, its feet on a bar.
Eagle holding a sign takes 12 characters in place of YOUR WORDS; longer words push its edge out.
Four pieces are a feather and no bird: one on one line, one lying flat, one leaning, and half of one under Squash-proof.
Questions and answers
How do you type an eagle on one line?
Put a wing each side of a head in profile: '--.._(o>_..--' is 15 characters, with a parenthesis, a letter o and a greater-than sign for the head and its beak.
Why is a bald eagle called bald?
It is not hairless. By Wikipedia's article on the bird, the name keeps an older meaning of bald: white-headed. That is why the bald eagles here have empty heads.
What is the Roman eagle called?
An aquila, the Latin word for eagle. By Wikipedia's article on it, each legion carried one, it was made of silver or bronze, and the legionary who carried it was the aquilifer, the eagle-bearer.
All 32 pieces
Your own words 1
Eagle holding a signAn eagle in profile perched on the top edge of a notice, one foot each side of the middle. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the sign has room for 12. 8 lines, 16 wide.
One line 4
Eagle and fish, one lineThe soaring eagle with a fish just ahead of it. 1 line, 19 wide.
Eagle feather on one lineTwelve barbs of a feather and three hyphens of bare quill. 1 line, 15 wide.
Eagle head on one lineThree braces for the neck feathers, then an eye and a hooked beak. 1 line, 7 wide.
Eagle soaring, one lineTwo wings held flat, with the head in profile between them. 1 line, 15 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 8
Bald eagle soaringDark wings, with the head and the tail left white. 4 lines, 22 wide.
Eagle feather, lying flatA feather on its side: the quill on the left, then the vane with its barbs in a long outline. 3 lines, 25 wide.
Eagle in flightSeen from below with its wings flat and the long feathers at each tip spread like fingers. 4 lines, 28 wide.
Small eagle headA round head, one eye and a beak that hooks down. 4 lines, 9 wide.
Small eagle soaringWings tipped up at the ends, the head in the middle. 2 lines, 18 wide.
Small perched eagleOn a branch, beak to the right, with three feathers of folded wing. 4 lines, 9 wide.
Squash-proof eagle faceFrom the front: a crest of feathers, two eyes under slanted brows and the beak as a letter V. 3 lines, 7 wide.
Squash-proof eagle wingsWings up and a head between them, with no gap a box could close. 3 lines, 14 wide.
Medium, 5 to 9 lines 15
Bald eagle headA white head on dark shoulders, with the beak hooked. 7 lines, 16 wide.
Eagle catching a fishLow over the water with its feet down and a fish just under them. 7 lines, 17 wide.
Eagle featherOne feather leaning to the right, its barbs drawn as slanted strokes, with the bare quill at the bottom left. 8 lines, 15 wide.
Eagle head in profileA brow over the eye and a heavy beak that hooks down past the chin. 9 lines, 26 wide.
Eagle in a wreathWings spread inside a ring of leaves tied at the bottom. 6 lines, 20 wide.
Eagle on a cliffPerched on the edge of a rock, facing the sun. 6 lines, 20 wide.
Eagle over the mountainsA small eagle above three peaks, two of them with snow, and the sun. 6 lines, 23 wide.
Eagle talonsOne foot closed round a perch: a leg, three toes and three claws. 5 lines, 13 wide.
Eagle wingsA pair of open wings with no bird between them. 7 lines, 21 wide.
Eagle, wings raisedFrom the front as it lands: both wings up, feet down. 6 lines, 20 wide.
Eaglets in the nestTwo chicks looking out over a nest of sticks. 5 lines, 18 wide.
Roman eagle, wings upThe eagle of a standard without its pole: wings stretched straight up, feet on a bar. 6 lines, 14 wide.
Small Roman eagleThe eagle of a Roman standard on its pole, wings up, five lines high. 5 lines, 9 wide.
Squash-proof eagle featherHalf a feather against its shaft, widest at the fourth barb. 8 lines, 5 wide.
Two-headed eagleOne body and two heads that look away from each other. 6 lines, 19 wide.
Large, 10 lines and up 4
Bald eagle on a branchThe head and the tail are left empty for the white feathers, and the body is filled in dark. 11 lines, 17 wide.
Big eagle, wings spreadWings open to both sides, head turned to the right, tail and feet below. 12 lines, 32 wide.
Eagle on a branchIn profile on a bough: hooked beak, folded wing, and the tail hanging under the branch. 11 lines, 19 wide.
Roman eagle standardAn eagle with its wings up on top of a pole, over a crossbar and a plaque of this page's own. 11 lines, 16 wide.
How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-08, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, none is traced from a picture, and no flag, seal, coin or badge of a country, a team or a company is drawn. The eagles share one construction of this site's own: a round head with one eye, a beak written as a greater-than sign or as a hook of hyphens and periods, and wing feathers written as rows of slashes and backslashes. Two facts were read on 2026-10-08 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Bald eagle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle): the adult is an even dark brown, its head and tail white, its beak is large and hooked, and the name comes from an older meaning of bald, white-headed; the bald eagles here leave the white parts empty and fill the dark body with number signs. Aquila (Roman) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila_(Roman)): an aquila was the standard of a Roman legion, each legion carried one eagle, a legionary called the aquilifer carried it, and it was silver or bronze, its wings stretched upward; the crossbar and the plaque on the pole here are this site's own drawing and copy no surviving object. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work