Bald Eagle

(Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

When viewing eagles, PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR, unless you're visiting a manned eagle observation deck. Your car acts as an excellent blind. People walking around or toward a perched eagle will chase it off its roost. Flying takes away from the needed energy an eagle requires to survive in the cold winter temperatures. www.baldeagleinfo.com

 

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BALD EAGLES

  • A Bald Eagle weighs about 9 lbs. on average.
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  • The Bald Eagle is about 3 feet tall on average.
  • A Bald Eagle’s wingspan is from anywhere from 5.5 to 7.5 feet.
  • The average life span of a Bald Eagle is on average 20 years in the wild, 40 years in captivity.
  • Both males and females have white heads at the age of three.
  • Younger eagles are brown, but they are as big as the adults, and may be mistaken for Golden Eagles.
  • Bald Eagles eat fish, smaller birds or mammals and carrion.
  • Most Skagit eagles leave for the Puget Sound basin, or head north to British Columbia or Southeast Alaska to mate and nest in late March and April. 
  • Bald Eagles live in every state except for Hawaii

Information by: www.skagiteagle.org

 

 

Bald Eagle Range

 
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An excerpt from The Return of the Sea Eagle

 
I hear the eagle bird
With his great feathers spread,
Pulling the blanket back from the east, How swiftly be flies,
Bearing the sun to the morning.
John A. Love (1983)

 

 

TRACKS: This is what a bald eagle's tracks look like.

 

 
This is a picture of a bald eagle's nest.

 

 

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