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The American Bald Eagle
I chose the American bald eagle because it is one of the

fastest and strongest species of eagles. It is the national

symbol. The Congress adopted it as the national symbol in

1782. I think it was adopted as the national bird of the

United States because the Roman soldiers used the eagle

as a symbol of courage and power. In the early 1800's,

Americans called the Bald Eagle, the American eagle. Here

is some of the biology of the Bald Eagle. Bald Eagles do a

very good job at their part in the food web. Bald eagles

also have an interesting name. The scientific name for bald

eagles is Haliaeetus leucocephalus. The family order is

accipitridae and falconiformes. The young of bald eagles

are called eaglets or eyasses. Bald eagles are

warm-blooded and breathe oxygen from the air. A female

will lay 1 to 3 eggs every five years, with at least 1hatching.

Although all Bald Eagles are consumers, none of them eat

plants to get their chemical energy. Some birds in the eagle

community are African fish eagle, Stellerís sea eagle,

white-bellied sea eagle and the palm-nut vulture. Bald

eagles, out of all eagles are carnivores; they eat fish, there is

no such thing as a herbivore or even an omnivore Eagle.

The young of a bald eagle are fully fledged (just like their

parents and ready to live in the world) at about the age of 4

months. After hatching, newborn eagles are all white and

blind. Male bald eagles generally measure 3 feet from the

end of the beak to the tip of the tail, weighing about 7 to 10

pounds, and having a wing span of 6 feet. Females, some

larger, reach about 14 pounds and have a wingspan of 8

feet. Bald eagles live only in the United States and Mexico.

Bald eagles will only live near lakes and rivers. A bald

eagle's nest is about 70 feet above the ground in tall pines

or deciduous trees. Nests are almost 7 feet wide and five

feet deep. The territory of a Bald Eagle has a carrying

capacity of 10 to 40 square miles, per eagle. Eagles

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