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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]
Thanks to successful conservation efforts, many more people can observe magnificent bald eagles in their natural habitats. Bald eagles mate for life and build and maintain huge nests that they use ...
A 27-year-old bald eagle named Lincoln has become a fan favorite at Philadelphia Eagles home games. Although Lincoln lives at the American Eagle Foundation in Tennessee, football fans in the City ...
The Bald Eagle has symbolized American ideals since its placement on the Great Seal in 1782," Preston Cook, the cochair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center and author of ...
The live webcam was set up in 2007 by the Raptor Resource Project (RRP), [13] Xcel Energy and Dairyland Power, [14] and was upgraded to live-streaming by Ustream in 2011. [2] The Decorah Eagles' Ustream channel features in real time the Decorah, Iowa bald eagle family as they build and repair their nests, mate and lay eggs, struggle with bad weather and predators, and protect and care for ...
The tawny eagle, despite being an eagle of intermediate size, does not seem to be subject to natural predators in adulthood as far as is known and can be said to fulfill the role of an apex predator. [ 12 ] [ 47 ] [ 108 ] Nestling tawny eaglets and young tawny eagles are commonly vulnerable to assorted natural predators but these are little known.
As the bald eagle stood guard over its eggs, the wind blew so hard that the eagle's tail feathers blew upward, away from the eggs. Still, the eagle held its ground.
In 2020, there were 316,700 bald eagles in the United States, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a four-fold increase over its 2016 report. The bird was once on the endangered ...