What does it mean when scientists say “an eagle can see a rabbit in a field from a mile away”. Is their vision automatically more zoomed in? Do they have better than 20/20 vision? Is their vision just clearer?

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What does it mean when scientists say “an eagle can see a rabbit in a field from a mile away”. Is their vision automatically more zoomed in? Do they have better than 20/20 vision? Is their vision just clearer?

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My Caique parrots can spot almost anything in the sky. If they are looking up I’ll follow their gaze and there is always an airplane that I can just barely see. They make a growling noise when they see them too. Their night vision is a lot worse and they are afraid of the dark lol

Like others have said it’s not that they are zooming in (that would be cool!) but more so that they almost have higher resolution retinas. So they see things sharper where we couldn’t at all or would be blurry.

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