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A bald eagle named Freedom perches on a branch at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Experiencing seeing a bird in the wild or even as you're driving along a business-lined highway can leave an impression. Dan Day, a birder who's spotted bald eagles some 50 times in recent years both on nature walks and just driving around suburban New Jersey, remembered never having seen the birds as a kid growing up in Cleveland.
That would seem to back up a study, published in 2022 in the journal Science, that found “unexpectedly high frequencies of lead poisoning of eagles” when it looked at 1,210 bald and golden ...
It will be a hatching seen around the world. Live cameras pointed at a bald eagle nest in the mountains of Southern California are broadcasting views of the impending arrival of three eagle chicks ...
Shot just outside of Seattle, a hunting Osprey was trying to catch a meal and ended up becoming the target of a hunting bald eagle instead. Watch the dramatic footage. The post Dramatic Encounter ...
The eagles' perch as symbols of the country contributes to their conservation, with experts considering them an “umbrella species,” whose need for large open spaces and waterways helps preserve lesser known wildlife. “Americans are always going to have that sort of personal relationship with bald eagles," Clark said.
The bald eagle, with its history as the symbol of the nation going back over 200 years, made a roaring comeback from near extinction to becoming America's official bird this week.
The bald eagle is placed in the genus Haliaeetus (), and gets both its common and specific scientific names from the distinctive appearance of the adult's head. Bald in the English name is from an older usage meaning "having white on the face or head" rather than "hairless", referring to the white head feathers contrasting with the darker body. [4]