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Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Description:

The adult bald eagle is large bird of prey with a white head and tail and dark brown body. Feet and strongly-hooked beak are yellow. Immature bald eagles are brown with irregular white splotching under the wings and on the breast. Feet and beak of immature are brown. The adult plumage starts to appear in the fourth year. Females are larger than males.

Habitat:

Usually found along large water features, where they feed on fish. They will, however, venture into upland areas to hunt rabbits and other prey.

Notes:

These two eagles were engaged in an aerial ballet. A mated pair, perhaps? Hard to know as this is a wintering area as well as a nesting area. At any rate they were in hot pursuit of each other.

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2 Comments

ErykHendrianto
ErykHendrianto 11 years ago

lovely

EmilyMarino
EmilyMarino 11 years ago

Nice!

Gordon Dietzman
Spotted by
Gordon Dietzman

Minnesota, USA

Spotted on Jan 19, 2013
Submitted on Apr 5, 2013

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