Since it’s release on iOS devices the Mighty Eagle has been shrouded with mystery. This article and Q&A aims to clear up some of that confusion.
So, what exactly is the Mighty Eagle? Put simply, the Mighty Eagle is an in-app purchase that can help you pass a level. But that is not all. It also adds a new dimension to Angry Birds — in a way it’s a game inside the game (more on that later).
Current Availability
The Mighty Eagle is currently available on the following platforms (last updated July 2013):
- iOS: All 5 apps!
Angry Birds on December 20th, 2010, Seasons on August 22nd, 2011, Rio on October 27th, 2011, Space on March 22nd, 2012, and Star Wars on November 8th, 2012. - Android via Google Play: All 5 apps!
Angry Birds on August 8th, 2012, Seasons on March 13th, 2013, Rio on December 18th, 2012, Space on June 5th, 2012, and Star Wars on November 8th, 2012. - T-Mobile Android Devices: Angry Birds via the T-Mobile Mall on September 30th, 2011.
- NOOK Color: Angry Birds on June 30th, 2011 for free within Barnes & Noble stores via Angry Birds Magic.
- Chrome Beta: December 1st, 2011 (with a free trial in Poached Eggs).
- Facebook: February 13th, 2012 (with a very different cost/payment system, so refer to its main post).
- Need help getting feathers / total destruction? We have a bunch of Mighty Eagle walkthrough videos available for most of the more challenging levels. If no video exists for the level you need, you can make a request in the forum.
Important Disclaimer
Foremost, the Mighty Eagle is a separate in-app purchase for each app. In the original Angry Birds, Seasons, and Rio, a 1-time purchase will gain unlimited use, per the Q&A that appears below. In Space and Star Wars, “Mighty usage” is a consumable IAP and subject to different pricing. The Q&A below is not 100% accurate for these “consumable Mighties”, and you should refer to our Classroom Lessons for additional references and details.
Questions and Answers.
After purchasing the Mighty Eagle you can to use it to pass a level once per hour, or, if you’ve already passed a level you can use it as often as you like. Using it will not yield any stars or points, but rather it calculates a percentage of destruction, with 100% destruction being Total Destruction. When you do receive Total Destruction on a given level you will receive a feather. Ultimately your goal is to obtain a feather on every single level of the game. On some levels this is NOT an easy task. Fortunately we have some video walkthroughs available for the most challenging levels.
Okay, so how does it work from within the game? After you purchase the Mighty Eagle you have to activate it from within a particular level. This is simply done by tapping the eagle eye icon that appears next to the pause button on every level. It’s important to note that you can then use it in conjunction with your other birds (actually, on many levels you can’t receive Total Destruction without using them together).
After you activate the Mighty Eagle your slingshot is loaded with a can of sardines. You then hurl the can towards the piggies mocking you on the other side. After which, you wait a couple seconds…then…BLAMOH! T he Mighty Eagle drops out of the sky and smashes everything. At that point your destruction is calculated based on the damage sustained. How much destruction really depends on how strategically you place you can of sardines, use of your other birds, and on some levels bit of luck. After you’ve used the Mighty Eagle the level selection icons display an eagle graphic to signify he’s been used.
That’s pretty much it. We’ll use the Q & A section below to answers some of the more common questions we receive. A big thanks to Rovio for chiming in on some of them.
- Q. What devices currently support the Mighty Eagle?
- A. Right now the Mighty Eagle is only available to purchase on iOS devices (ipad, iPhone, and iPod Touch). NOOK Color owners can access the Mighty Eagle from with Barnes & Noble, but there currently is no option to purchase. Rovio has stated many times that expects the Mighty Eagle will eventually land on most devices and come to different versions of the game (like Angry Birds Seasons).
Update: This list has since been expanded. See the full list above. - Q. I am having a hard time passing a level. Do you have Mighty Eagle walkthroughs available?
- A. Yes, we have many video walkthroughs for some of the most challenging levels.
- Q. Will this yield 3 stars every time?
- A. Per Rovio, “Using the Eagle doesn’t give you any stars, but the scoring goes into the Eagle mode. The destruction is calculated in percentages, and getting a 100% Total Destruction awards you with an eagle feather for that level. This gives you a reason to revisit all the old levels again, even if you’ve got three stars on all of them. So, when skipping a level with the Eagle, you still have to come back and earn the three stars in the regular fashion.”
- Q. How will affect leaderboards? It seems kind of unfair to rank these people higher than those who passed the level without the Mighty Eagle.
- A. Per Rovio via Tweet, “No effect on leaderboards”. Per Rovio, via comments below, “The Mighty Eagle can be used with the regular set of birds, and this might be required to maximize your Eagle score in some levels (or, first destroy some difficult-to-reach blocks with the regular birds before launching the final blast with the Eagle.”
- Q. Does this incentive Rovio to make the upcoming levels harder, if not almost impossible?
- A. No. This question was asked before the Mighty Eagle was really understood. Since it’s not supported on all devices this just wouldn’t make since. Also, as we’ve shown above, the Mighty Eagle is like a game within the game, so there is no affect on the normal game play.
- Q. How much will it cost?
- A. “The price point is $0.99/£0.59/€0.79” per app.
- Q. What do you get when you purchase the Mighty Eagle?
- A. The Mighty Eagle comes with two features:
1. It allows you to skip a level in the event you’re stuck and just want to move on.
2. It’s basically a new “mini-game” where your goal is to obtain feathers by receiving Total Destruction. - Q. Is it a single use item or do you only have to purchase it once?
- A. You only have to purchase it ONCE per app. Per Rovio, “The Eagle is NOT one use only, but it ‘recharges’ for a time before it can be used to skip a level again. However, the Eagle can be used repeatedly in any level you’ve already managed to unlock.”
Updates:
12/20/2010: The Mighty Eagle update is available on the iPad.
12/23/2010: The Mighty Eagle update is out for the iPhone and iTouch!
06/30/2011: Mighty Eagle Now Available on NOOK Color via Angry Birds Magic
08/22/2011: Mighty Eagle Now Available in Angry Birds Seasons
09/30/2011: Mighty Eagle Lands for Android Exclusively via the T-Mobile Mall
10/27/2011: Mighty Eagle Now Available in Angry Birds Rio
12/01/2011: Angry Birds Chrome Update Adds Mighty Eagle
02/13/2012: Angry Birds on Facebook Out Now with the Mighty Eagle
03/22/2012: Understanding the Mighty Space Eagle
06/05/2012: Angry Birds Space Eagle & Danger Zone Now Available for Android
08/08/2012: Mighty Eagle Finally Lands on Android in Latest Surf & Turf Update
11/08/2012: Angry Birds Star Wars Now Available! Try it, you will
12/18/2012: Angry Birds Rio Update Adds Power Ups, Bonus Levels, Mighty Eagle for Android
03/13/2013: Angry Birds Seasons Update Adds Power-ups, Bonus Levels, Mighty Eagle for Android
I have the mighty eagle and since buying it when I play the game glitches. I want to delete the mighty eagle does anyone know how?
I’m not sure it’s possible, though I would post that question in the forum.
how you get the mighty eagle??
If you’re on an iOS device you can purchase it from within the full version Angry Birds. It should be coming to other platforms soon, so they say.
where are the sardines?
When you click the Mighty Eagle icon a can of sardines gets loaded onto the slingshot.
I really want to know what the mighty eagle looks like. All I see is big blur. Is the one shown on this website its actual look?
Yes.
It looks like a whale.
Do they plan on fixing glitches some time soon? I haven’t played because I only need 100% on 6-4. It still won’t give me the 200 feathers achievement even though I have 209 feathers. Angry Birds Free HD has a glitch in which one of the levels will only give one star even after obliterating nearly everything on the screen, and the new hang ‘Em high levels still are not available. Has anyone checked to make sure the developers are still alive?
I have the same. 209 feathers but you need to go to chrystal and update your account or refresh it. I DO have the 200 feathers achievement posted but that darn 6-4 is driving me nuts. I’ve exploded absolutely everything there only to get a 83%.
Is there any chance you could post a video of your 83% achievement on YouTube? I got 79% and thought that was good. Congrats on 83%, btw.
It is possible, I have 82% and a picture of it! Don’t know how I did it, just got lucky!
Why did you not wait till the bug was fixed?
I hav 82% ,.. How u got 83 I don’t know.,,.
I’ve been on it for weeks , sumtimes up to 6/7 hours atime
every thing else is done ,, driving me MAD As ten Bears …
Why didn’t you wait till the bug was fixed?
Also Christi have you logged out of the game center and logged back in?
Yes,tried that. Hmmm…maybe it’s just me…?
This is craazzy. The most I can get on 6-4 is 79% and almost everything is gone. I have spend hours and hours on this. It is my last level to complete.
Its great that they have made the mighty eagle, but it seems a little too much for a little add on.
It would be great if the new games came out by Tuesday morning as I have a long flight to Europe and plenty of time to complete them.lol
When will the Mighty Eagle be available in Angry Birds Seasons?
How to disable Mighty Eagle Alert in iPhone?
It’s so annoying
You can’t for now (see this forum post).
12-3 if your having problems it’s way easier them you think, use all three birds on left side, shoot sardine can straight down, 100% everytime. Did it 10 times in a row just to make sure.
Have you got 100% destruction on level 6-4. That is the only one I can not beat. I have feathersfor every other level. On 6-4 I can get anything above 81% and it seems like there are only 2 blocks remaining, not sure what is going on. Any tips?
There’s a glitch in the software so it’s impossible. I was trying off and on for a couple of weeks with no luck so I had to do some research to find out what was going on.
I don’t think it’s a glitch, i’ve got 99% and there were a couple of bits left. basically you have to try and destroy as much as possible WITHOUT letting the TNT explode and then cob the Eagle. If you explode TNT it shoots stuff off the screen and therefore makes it impossible. 6-4 is the only one i don’t have a feather for!
When will the mighty eagle be out for the samsung epic? Please hurry
For some reason I can’t get 100% mighty eagle score on 1-5,2-17,9-9,9-11,10-2,10-7,I think it was 11-11 or something, and 12-2 and 3, and of course , 6-4. Can you post up some Mighty Eagle walkthroughs or something?
WHEN IS THE NEXT UPDATE COMING!!!! I already have 200 hundred feathers and all 18 golden eggs for a while, and all the 3-stars!!!From my other comment you con see what levels I need help with, but I NEED THE NEXT UPDATE!!! ANGRY BIRDS IS MY LIFE!!!
Whew! Finally got all but the screwed up 6-4.
So we’re going on a month and a half without an update on the glitches or new levels. I guess the franchising…the stuffed animals (I have the bomb bird) the Hasbro board game, and such…the developers must either be too busy making deals with everyone or cashing their checks to actually follow through with their product?
I just started this game and I purchased the mighty eagle on my ipod touch and I don’t see wher I can use it . when I am haveing trouble with a level the eagle eye shows up and when I touch it it says I already have it please help
I have 2 devices which I use and have Angry Birds on, if I buy the Mighty Eagle on one device, sync it to itunes, and then sync my second device to itunes, will I also have the Mighty Eagle? Of do I also have to buy it on my second device?
Pretty sure you have to buy it on both.
Purchase the mighty eagle from within angry birds on your second device, it will ask for itunes password then tell you it has already been purchased and offer you a free download! I did it this morning on my wifes phone!
I have two iPods and once I bought the eagle on one I could download it for free on the other one (I have the same iTunes account on both).
That makes sense.
Does Mighty Eagle work on Angry Birds Seasons?
Not yet.
I bought the Eagle after the 1.51 update my notifacations are set to off. Yet I still recieve them?
Noooooooo! Are you actually getting the alert notifications or is it just the little bubble on top of the icon?
both ale alert message and the bubble one the icon
I get both the Alert and the bubble on the icon after i use the eagle … once i open the game and close it without using the eagle it seems to be gone… but if i use the eagle it comes back a hour later.
Then don’t use the Mighty Eagle. I never needed it, so I don’t have this problem. Which of the levels do you think is so expensive that you need the Mighty Eagle?
Sometimes it is hard to get 3 stars, but for me it was never too hard to finish a level with one star.
Sorry, I mean difficult, not expensive! :-)
IS MIGHTY EAGLE AVAILABLE FOR ANDROID…IF SO HOW DO I GET IT?
Not unless you’re in Finland.
thats not fair, why not?
That’s where they’re beta testing it. It’s actually a good thing, since we want them to work out the bugs.
where do you go to buy the mighty eagle
You buy it from within the game, but it’s currently only available for iOS devices.
Hey! I was trying to find out how to get the “Hang ’em High” levels on my ipod. I have 3 stars on all levels and no idea how to get it. Is there a gift box I need to destroy? I heard that. Let me know and thank you!
You need to update the app via the App Store.
thanks….you mean the app store “itunes” or somewhere else??
Finally got 6-4! Trick is to open left side above TNT but not explode them! Then throw the sardines in to rest on that ledge! Eagle comes in and collision causes explosion with all the TNT! I had two damaged triangles and a crate left! Which was wierd cos I got 98% with only two damaged triangles left before! Go figure!
You da man! First attempt at this got me 90%, third got total destruction!! It’s hard to just get that triangular wood, but I just took that out, laid in the sardines, and was home free! I’m betting they also tweaked it in the last release. Now I have feathers in all levels! (oh, wait. they released new levels, didn’t they. OK, I got through level 12. Still working on 3 stars for Valentines, then I’ll get back to this.
Haha, funny. The trick is to download the newest update! :-) Cos they fixed the bug. Otherwise your “trick” won’t help at all.
Hahah, thatll explain why i am sure i had less things left before and only got 6o something %. haha. oh well it will help others get 100% cos it does work.
Ok. I have all feathers on all levels… All 20 eggs! Now what. I need more angry birds. Finished all seasons greeting stars too. I need more levels.
Ah, but do you have all the achievements? Somehow, I inexplicably haven’t gotten Smash Maniac (500,000 blocks)…
I also need score addict on Episodes 3 and 4. I have three stars on all levels, but somehow I’m short 90,000 on Episode 4. I’m short 44,000 on Episode 3 and I’m getting tired of looking at those screens…
i three star’d the mighty eagle new levels and I only receive 90 stars out of 135 whats the deal with that?
for ages ive tried all tricks and ideas on 13-7 and i still am not able to pass the 99% mark for the mighty eagle.. what gives..
how is the percentage calculated? i mean sometimes i break everything but 1 block and i dont get 100%, sometmes i break only half the blocks and get 100% … how to place the sardine i stil dont know..
I don’t think anyone knows exactly how the percentages are calculated — wish I did. That said, we have a bunch of Mighty Eagle walkthroughs that will be coming online very soon. You might want to drop your level request(s) into our request forum.
Can you get mighty eagle for free?
Don’t think so.
I have gotten the feather in every single level except for 6-4 (though 4-2 was hard). My max is 99% which I have done about 8 times now!! It has to be a glitch. Once they do an update, this one shouldn’t be a problem. A couple of times I’ve cleared the entire screen of debris. Very frustrating, put pointless to keep at it until they do an update.
It’s not impossible. Check out our video walkthrough.
I purchased the mighty eagle on my iphone and it doesn’t show up. I tried to repurchase and got confirmation that I had already bought it. Thanks for posting the video. However, I do not see the mighty eagle icon anywhere on any screen. Has anyone had this happen or know how to resolve? THANKS!
Hmmm, I haven’t heard of this happening before, Have you tried a force/soft restart (hold home and sleep button until you see the apple logo) of the phone and a FULL closing of Angry Birds?
FujiToast, Thanks for the recommendation. Unfortunately, that did not resolve my issue. I’m still perplexed!
Will the mighty eagle be available for the free versions?
When are the new games coming out? I’m having withdrawals again!
I have an Ipod and Iphone I purchased the mighty eagle on my ipod touch but they ask to buy it again on my iphone!
That the same account on both device.
Can i share the same achievment and the same mighty eagle.
Thank.