Scientific Name: Haliaeetus Leucocephalus
Conservation Status: Least Concern
He LOVES a bath and will sit on the edge of his bath doing an excited little dance as he waits for it to be refilled, although he often gets too impatient and will hop in whilst the hose is still in there.
On the flip side, he HATES the ride-on lawn mower that the gardeners use and will vacate the area and return to one of the A-frames where he will remain until we find him.
Bald eagles are not bald; the name derives from an older meaning of the word, “white-headed”. The adult is mainly brown with a white head and tail. The sexes are identical in plumage, but females are about 25% larger than males. The yellow beak is large and hooked. The plumage of the immature is brown.
In the late 20th century, the Bald Eagle was on the brink of extinction in the United States due to factors such as persecution and poisoning. In 1930 a New York City ornithologist wrote that in the territory of Alaska in the previous 12 years, approximately 70,000 bald eagles had been shot. Many of the hunters killed the bald eagles under the long-held beliefs that bald eagles grabbed young lambs and even children with their talons, yet the birds were innocent of most of these alleged acts of predation. The Bald Eagle has since recovered their numbers staggeringly with significant changes in law allowing them to do so. The use of DDT was banned and The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, approved in 1940, protected the bald eagle and the golden eagle, prohibiting commercial trapping and killing of the birds as well as collecting their eggs.
Bald Eagles are proficient hunters and their diet primarily consists of fish, birds, and other mammals. However, juvenile eagles will happily and eagerly scavenge, and have been known to scavenge prey as large as whales but more often than not, will steal prey from other animals. Bald Eagles have also been known to hunt cooperatively, with one bird distracting the prey whilst the other sneaks behind to ambush them.
Bald Eagles have high mate fidelity and will typically mate for life. However, should one of the pair perish the survivor will choose a new mate. A pair that repeatedly fails at breeding will split and look for new mates.
Bald eagle courtship involves elaborate, spectacular calls and flight displays by the males. The flight includes swoops, chases, and cartwheels, in which they fly high, lock talons, and free-fall, separating just before hitting the ground
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Birds of prey are some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds out there. So, it’s not surprising that they have some pretty cool facts about them! Here are our picks of the most interesting facts about birds of prey. We hope you learn something new... Harris...
