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[dakenho]

so a long way off but when more birds get added it should be possible to tame and train a giant war eagle,   maybe having trained birds fly about to spot ambushes.

[Gorm]

... it should be possible to tame and train a giant war eagle, ...

Giant eagles are trainable already. It's just quite difficult to capture them.

[IT 000]

Giant Eagles can already be tamed and trained with a noble called the Dungeon Master, however there is a bug preventing him from showing up. So there is no way of doing so without modding.

In the mean time, if you have a few birds in your cages you can go to your save, open the region you are using. Find the folder titled creature_large_mountain and open it. Find the Giant Eagle entry.
It should look like this

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[CREATURE:BIRD_EAGLE_GIANT]
   [DESCRIPTION:An enormous bird-like monster that nests in the high mountains.  Its hunt can range over the entire known world and it will kill anything it can carry back to its perch.]
   [NAME:giant eagle:giant eagles:giant eagle]
   [CASTE_NAME:giant eagle:giant eagles:giant eagle]
   [GENERAL_CHILD_NAME:giant eagle hatchling:giant eagle hatchlings]
   [CREATURE_TILE:'E'][COLOR:6:0:0]
   [POPULATION_NUMBER:15:30]
   [NATURAL]
   [LARGE_ROAMING][DIFFICULTY:2]
   [LARGE_PREDATOR]
   [PETVALUE:700]
   [PET_EXOTIC] <----
   [MOUNT_EXOTIC]
   [TRAINABLE]
   [SAVAGE]
   [FLIER]
   [BONECARN]
   [CHILD:1]
   [ALL_ACTIVE]
   [BIOME:MOUNTAIN]
   [HOMEOTHERM:10067]
   [SWIMS_INNATE][SWIM_SPEED:2500]
   [PREFSTRING:coloration]

Replace [PET_EXOTIC] tag with just the [PET] tag and you should be able to tame it and train it into war animals. However keep in mind that they will not go out on there own and instead will function much like a war dog. Not really doing much until they are assigned to a dwarf.

[tsen]

The problem there is that they end up acting like a war dog, not a scout. So they spot an ambush and charge blindly in, then die. So unless you manage to tame a crapload of them and start an extremely robust breeding program, you'll be out of ambush spotting eagles inside a year or two.

[Max White]

Solution to all problems? Modding. I know Genisis by Deon currently features a method of getting the dungeon master to show up.

[The_Kakaze]

I suppose you could set some meeting areas up outside of your fortress so your unassigned eagles would have places to go, then restrict all of your dwarves to indoor burrows.  You'd have pretty much all of your livestock going to and from them, so you might need to restrain them with chains or cages.

I think trained eagles would follow whoever trained them, so perhaps it would only work for untrained ones.