Appearance: The bald eagle is the United State’s national bird. It’s enormous at about 30-38″ in length with an equally impressive wingspan. They’re brown with a white head and tail, gold bill, and yellow eyes.
Diet: Bald eagles are opportunistic eaters but prefer fish. They’ll also eat small mammals, other birds, carrion (dead animals), and anything they can retrieve from the garbage.
Feeder food: Bald eagles do not visit feeders (Thank goodness!)
Habitat: Bald eagles are found year-round along the US east and west coast, in Canada during the breeding season, and throughout the US during winter. They prefer to be near lakes, rivers, marshes, and coasts so they can fish.
Nesting: Bald eagles build enormous nests – about 6′ in diameter and 3′ tall. Together the male & female gather materials including sticks and grasses. The female is the primary nest builder weaving the sticks with moss and other grasses and then lined with softer materials such as lichen and downy feathers. They have only 1 brood/year and 1-3 large ivory eggs. Incubation lasts for 56-98 days.
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