The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a large bird of prey (a sea eagle) native to North America. Its historic range ...
A symbol of the United States since the 1700s, the bald eagle was decimated over the 19th century and mid-20th century by unregulated hunting, poisoning and the use of pesticides and other chemicals.
In the Aleutian Islands in Alaska I found bald eagles that were wilder and tougher than that. They were dirty, they were wet, ...