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	Bald Eagle Facts and Information
		The Bald Eagle was officially declared the National Emblem of the United States by the Second Continental Congress in 1782.
		Bald Eagles live near large bodies of open water such as lakes, marshes, seacoasts and rivers, where there are plenty of fish to eat and tall trees for nesting and roosting.
		The mass shooting of eagles, use of pesticides on crops, destruction of habitat, and contamination of waterways and food sources by a wide range of poisons and pollutants all played a role in harming the Bald Eagle's livelihood and diminishing their numbers.
	www.eagles.org /moreabout.html (1081 words)

	USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - American Bald Eagle
		Bald eagles are believed to live 30 years or longer in the wild, and even longer in captivity.
		In addition to the adverse effects of DDT, bald eagles also died from lead poisoning as a result of feeding on hunter-killed or crippled waterfowl containing lead shot and from lead shot that was inadvertently ingested by the waterfowl.
		These captive-hatched bald eagles were an important source for restocking wild populations in certain areas of the country and helped to reestablish a broader distribution.
	www.usflag.org /baldeagle.html (1341 words)

	Care2 Know More?
		The bald eagle is a bird of prey unique to North America, and renowned for its aura of dignity, majesty and authority in the sky.
		For much of the last half century the bald eagle was in danger of extinction, although in recent years its population has increased in numbers, suggesting a bright future.
		Male bald eagles generally measure between 2-3 feet (60 to 90 cm) from head to tail, weigh 7-10 pounds (3.2 to 4.5 kg), and have a wingspan of around 6 feet (1.8 m).
	www.care2.com /cards/writeups/baldeagle.html (900 words)

	The Bald Eagle - USA's National Emblem
		The bald eagle was chosen June 20, 1782 as the emblem of the United States of American, because of its long life, great strength and majestic looks, and also because it was then believed to exist only on this continent.
		The golden is feathered down the entire leg, while the bald eagle has no feathers on lower part of the leg until at least two or three years of age, when bald eagles also start developing the white head and tail.
		It was Benjamin Franklin's observations of a bald eagle either ignoring or retreating from such mobbing that probably led to his claim of the bald eagle's lack of courage.
	www.baldeagleinfo.com /eagle/eagle9.html (822 words)

	San Francisco Zoo \| Animals \| Bald Eagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eagle beaks are sharp and powerful, and they have strong, grasping, taloned feet, which have small bumps on the bottoms of the toes to help the bird hold on to the slippery scales of a fish.
		Bald eagles are able to live anywhere with adequate nest trees, roosts and feeding grounds, and are found in North America, Alaska, Canada, and the western coast of the United States.
		Bald eagles were shot not only for their feathers, but because they posed a threat to livestock and hampered the fishing industry.
	www.sfzoo.org /cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=25 (998 words)

	Hinterland Who's Who - Bald Eagle
		Young Bald Eagles from the population that breeds in Florida during November and December wander north in the summer, sometimes as far as the Maritimes.
		The largest winter gathering of Bald Eagles on the continent is along the late-freezing Chilkat River in Alaska, where thousands of Bald Eagles gather from October to December to feed on salmon that have died after spawning.
		Eagles were just beginning to recover from the first decline, perhaps in part thanks to the U.S. Bald Eagle Act of 1940 that prohibited the killing of Bald Eagles in the lower 48 states, when the number of eagles in both Canada and the United States declined again.
	www.hww.ca /hww2.asp?id=27 (2039 words)

	The American Bald Eagle @ History @ Flag Day Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eagles are loosely divided into four types; sea or fish eagles, serpent or snake eagles, true or booted eagles, and harpy or buteonine eagles.
		Bald eagles are believed to live 30 years in the wild, and even longer in captivity.
		Once endangered in all of the lower 48 states, the bald eagle's status was upgraded to "threatened" in 1994, two decades after the banning of DDT and the passing of laws to protect both eagles and their nesting trees.
	www.flagday.com /history/bald_eagle/index.shtml (907 words)

	Bald Eagle: Nature Snapshots from Minnesota DNR: Minnesota DNR
		The bald eagle was placed on the federal endangered species list in 1972, but it may soon be removed because its population is increasing.
		In Minnesota, bald eagles are found primarily in the central part of the state and, in winter, along the Mississippi River.
		The bald eagle population, which was at all-time lows in 1972, has rebounded in recent years because of federal law protection and successful habitat conservation efforts.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/birds/baldeagle.html (355 words)

	Bald Eagle Fact Sheet - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Bald eagles breed in much of Alaska (where they are most common), Canada, the Pacific Northwest, along the East Coast, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf Coast, around the Great Lakes, and in other areas with sufficient water and wildlife.
		Eagles will wait on a favorite perch for an osprey to return to its nest with a fish in its talons for its own young, then harasses the smaller raptor until it is forced to drop its prey for the eagle to retrieve.
		Bald eagles lay two, occasionally three, eggs that are incubated by both parents, in turns for 34 to 36 days.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/Birds/Facts/FactSheets/fact-baldeagle.cfm (1352 words)

	CT DEP: Bald Eagle Fact Sheet
		Young bald eagles are often confused with golden eagles; however, they are grayer than the darker golden eagle, and the bill is much heavier.
		Bald eagles are infrequently observed during the summer.
		While this reclassification does not alter conservation measures already in force to protect the bald eagle and its habitats, it is a step closer to the main goal of the Endangered Species Act, which is to restore endangered and threatened plants and animals to the point where they are viable, self-sustaining members of their ecosystems.
	dep.state.ct.us /burnatr/wildlife/factshts/bldeagle.htm (917 words)

	Bald Eagle
		Bald Eagles become sexually mature at 5 - 6 years with maturity usually corresponding to when their head and tail feathers become white.
		Bald Eagles are protected from harm by a number of state and federal laws.
		Like many animals that have an extensive range, Bald Eagles living in the colder northern limits of this bird’s range are larger than the eagles living in the warmer southern end of the range.
	www.peregrinefund.org /Explore_Raptors/eagles/baldeagl.html (357 words)

	AMNH - Expedition : Endangered
		By 1963, there were only 417 known pairs of nesting eagles in the lower 48 states; in many areas of their former range, especially in the South, they had disappeared completely.
		Eagles build nests varying from a few sticks to massive structures; it is not uncommon for successive pairs of eagles to use a single nest for 35 years or more.
		In July of 1995, the bald eagle was officially downlisted from Endangered to Threatened status throughout the nation.
	www.amnh.org /nationalcenter/Endangered/eagle/eagle.html (592 words)

	Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsawalk.com, Birds of Prey in Oklahoma, Bald Eagle
		From ancient times the eagle has been thought of as a "symbol of courage and power," because of the high altitudes to which it flies, the great sizes of the larger species of eagle, and because of the inaccessibility of the mountain heights in which some of this species nest.
		The eagle was the emblem of certain Roman legions, of France under the Bonapartes, of Germany, of the Russian and Austro--Hungarian empires, and also of the United States.
		An adult Bald Eagle has a wingspan of 6.5 to 6.8 ft., their wings are thirty - one (31) to thirty - seven (37) in.
	www.tulsawalk.com /birding/begl.html (432 words)

	American Bald Eagle Information
		The "southern" bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus, is found in the gulf states from Texas and Baja California across to South Carolina and Florida, south of 40 degrees north latitude.
		Bald eagles were officially declared an endangered species in 1967 in all areas of the United States south of the 40th parallel, under a law that preceded the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
		Until 1995, the bald eagle had been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 43 of the 48 lower states, and listed as threatened in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Washington and Oregon.
	www.baldeagleinfo.com (569 words)

	Bald Eagle -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
		On July 12, 1995, the bald eagle was reclassified from endangered to threatened in the lower 48 states.
		The eagle is referred to as 'bald' because of the white plumage on its head.
		The bald eagle was officially adopted as the U.S. national emblem on June 20, 1782.
	www.kidsplanet.org /factsheets/bald_eagle.html (367 words)

	Arctic Studies Center
		Bald Eagles are very sensitive to disturbance of their feeding and breeding areas by humans, and it is only in isolated or protected regions where they now occur in large numbers.
		Eagles are well known to be extremely common on the entire Aleutian chain, and thence along the south coast of Alaska throughout the Kodiak and Sitkan region.
		While he was out one of these eagles soared high over the village, and seeing the hunter's wife outside of the house, swooped with a mighty rush of wings and carried her off to feed the nestlings.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/html/eagle.html (1110 words)

	American Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus
		The Bald Eagle tends to breed during the winter in the south, and during the spring in the north.
		Bald Eagles will tend to stay in their nesting area year round if there is food available and the weather permits.
		The Bald Eagle has five noticeable characteristics that make it very good at the jobs it needs to do in order to survive; these are called special adaptations.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /bald_eagle_deciduous.htm (1475 words)

	Bald Eagle
		The bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, is a large raptor that requires large trees for nesting, roosting and perching.
		The bald eagle is found near large bodies of water throughout North America, from central Alaska and northern Canada to northern Mexico, Baja California, the Gulf Coast and southern Florida.
		Adult bald eagles reach a size of approximately three feet from head to tail, weigh between 10 and 12 pounds and have a wingspread of up to seven feet.
	www.chesapeakebay.net /bald_eagle.htm (672 words)

	Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve
		Bald eagles are attracted to the area by the availability of spawned-out salmon and open waters in late fall and winter.
		Eagles feed mainly on fish, but water fowl, small mammals and carrion supplement their diet, especially when fish are in short supply.
		The Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve is managed by the State of Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation with the assistance of the 13-member Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve Advisory Council.
	www.dnr.state.ak.us /parks/units/eagleprv.htm (1070 words)

	Bald Eagle - WDNR
		Wisconsin's eagles are sometimes caught in trap set for other animals, shot illegally by misinformed people who dislike birds of prey, electrocuted when they perch on power lines or poisoned by lead ingested when they eat waterfowl that have lead shot pellets in their bodies.
		The plan's main objective was to increase the self-sustaining population of bald eagles in Wisconsin to 360 breeding pairs by the year 2000 with an average annual productivity of at least 1.2 young per occupied nest.
		All contributions are used specifically for bald eagle management and educational activities such as aerial surveys, rescue and rehabilitation of sick or orphaned young, educational materials for schools and work with private landowners to protect nest trees.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/land/er/factsheets/birds/eagle.htm (1509 words)

	Bald Eagle - Colorado Division of Wildlife
		Young bald eagles are dark brown in color when they fledge the nest at about 12 weeks of age.
		Bald eagles are seldom seen far from water - large rivers, lakes and seacoasts.
		Bald eagles often choose dead limbs in tall trees, possibly because their view is not obstructed by foliage.
	wildlife.state.co.us /WildlifeSpecies/Profiles/Birds/baldeagle.htm (542 words)

	Bald Eagle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bald in the English name refers to the white head feathers, and the scientific name is derived from Haliaeetus, the New Latin for "sea eagle," (from the Greek haliaetos) and leucocephalus, the Greek for "white head," from leukos ("white") and kephale ("head").
		Eagles produce between one and three eggs per year, but it is rare for all three chicks to successfully fly.
		Eagles have structures on their toes called spiricules that allow them to grasp fish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bald_Eagle (1511 words)

	Shrub-Steppe Series: What About Bald Eagles? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For example, the Egyptian hieroglyphic of an eagle is said to represent the free-soaring soul of man. The Phoenicians adapted the eagle symbol and used it for the letter "a." American Indians wore eagle feathers as badges of rank and courage.
		The bald eagle was incorporated into the national seal of the United States in 1782 by the Continental Congress, and the eagle was selected as our national bird, beating out the wild turkey.
		Bald eagles became a threatened/endangered species after World War II because of the increase in use of pesticides and pollution.
	www.pnl.gov /pals/resource_cards/Bald_Eagles.stm (1002 words)

	Eagles: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		The Bald Eagle is Alaska’s largest resident bird of prey (the Steller’s Sea Eagle is larger) with a wing span up to 7 1/2 feet (2.3 m) long and weights of 8 to 14 pounds (3.6-6.4 kg).
		Bald Eagles were endangered or eliminated throughout most of the Lower 48 states as a result of habitat destruction, illegal shooting, pesticides, and poisoning.
		Bald Eagle populations are recovering in many states because of strong support for endangered species wildlife habitat.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/bird/eagles.php (1187 words)

	ScienceMaster - JumpStart - American Bald Eagle
		From fewer than 450 nesting pairs in the early 1960s, there are now nearly 4,500 adult bald eagle nesting pairs and an unknown number of young and subadults in the conterminous U.S. In the last few years, several states have had breeding bald eagles for the first time in years.
		Until recently, the bald eagle was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 43 of the lower 48 states and listed as threatened in Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin.
		Then, in July 1995, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced that bald eagles in the lower 48 states have recovered to the point that those populations that were previously considered endangered are now considered threatened.
	www.sciencemaster.com /jump/life/eagle.php (1412 words)

	Bald Eagle Fact Sheet
		The bald eagle is a "Threatened" species in Maryland, and with proper management has recovered from an "endangered" status.
		Bald eagles are nearly 3 feet tall, have a wingspan over six feet, and weigh between 8-15 pounds.
		Bald eagles have been documented nesting in every county in MD. As the weather turns cold, bald eagles from Canada and northeastern states will spend the winter in Maryland, with concentrations at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Aberdeen Proving Ground, and the Susquehanna River below Conowingo Dam.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/baldeagle.html (288 words)

	Bald Eagle - EnchantedLearning.com
		The bald eagle is a magnificent bird of prey.
		Bald eagles are powerful fliers who can reach speeds of up to 100 miles per hour (160 kph) during a dive.
		Bald eagles live in forests near the shores of lakes and rivers.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/birds/info/Eagle.shtml (536 words)

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