![]() The mammals they eat include rabbits, hares, raccoons, muskrats, beavers, and deer fawns. They also sometimes eat the leftover food from campsites or garbage dumps. However, eagles eat more large dead fish than whales. They will also scavenge dead bodies up to the size of whales. Sometimes, eagles may eat a lot of carrion, especially in winter. In the Pacific Northwest, spawning trout and salmon are the main food of the Bald Eagle. But if the water where it lives freezes in the winter, it must migrate to the south or to the coast to find something to eat. If a bald eagle's territory has water near by, it will remain there all year. In some places, bald eagles are not migratory. The bald eagle is usually migratory, which means that it travels (migrates) between homes which are very far away from each other. ![]() Its dive speed is 120–160 kilometers per hour (75–99 mph), though it does not dive a lot. However, when it is carrying fish, it flies about 48 km/h (30 mph). It can move at speeds of 56–70 kilometers per hour (35–43 mph) when gliding or flapping its wings. The bald eagle has a name because it can reach speeds to (30)mph. The white-tailed eagle is in Eurasia, and the bald eagle is in North America. The pair probably parted into two at the North Pacific. These species both have white heads of the same size, although the white-tailed eagle has a more pale feather color. The bald eagle looks a lot like the Eurasian white-tailed eagle. It is found in the northern United States, Canada, and Alaska. It is larger than the southern kind, leucocephalus. washingtoniensis (named by Audubon, 1827) is the northern subspecies. It is found in the southern United States and Baja California. leucocephalus (named by Linnaeus, 1766) is one of the subspecies. There are two main subspecies of the bald eagle: Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who made the binomial nomenclature system. The bald eagle was one of the many species written in Carolus Linnaeus's 18th century book Systema Naturae. The scientific name is from Haliaeetus, which is Latin for "sea eagle". Bald in the English name is from the word piebald, which means, "one with a white head". This sea eagle gets both its common and scientific names from its head. The bald eagle has a bigger head and a bigger beak, and its legs do not have feathers. The bald eagle is physically and mentally different from the golden eagle. The bald eagle is closely related to a species called the golden eagle. The largest Bald Eagles are in Alaska, where large females may be as much as 7.5 kilograms (17 lb). The smallest birds are in Florida, where an adult male is only about 2.3 kilograms (5.1 lb). The size of the bird depends on where it lives. Their wings are usually speckled with white dots until the fifth year. The males and the females' wings have the same colors.īefore bald eagles become adults, their wings are brown. ![]() It also has yellow feet with large talons, and a hooked yellow beak. The adult bald eagle has a brown body, and its head and tail are white. Adult females weigh 5.8 kilograms (13 lb), while males weigh 4.1 kilograms (9.0 lb). Female eagles are about 25 percent larger than males. It is usually as tall as 70 to 102 centimetres (28 to 40 in) and its wingspan is 2.44 metres (96 in). The species almost died in the United States (while its numbers were growing in Alaska and Canada) late in the 20th century. (There is more information on the bald eagle's name in the section below called "Name.") It is called bald because of its white head and neck. It lives near big areas of water, where there are trees to nest in and there is a lot of food to eat. It can be found in most of Canada, all of the United States, and the northern part of Mexico. It is the national bird of the United States of America. The bald eagle ( Latin name: Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey that lives in North America. On migration only Star: Single eagles spotted
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