Bald eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Class
- Bird
- Order
- Accipitriformes
- Family
- Accipitridae
- Diet
- Fish eater
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- North America
- Habitat
- Wetlands, Forest, Rivers and lakes
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- It is not bald: the name comes from an old sense of the word meaning white-headed.
- A pair reuses and adds to its nest every year, so old nests grow into huge piles of sticks weighing hundreds of kilograms.
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Aquila chrysaetos
- Secretarybird
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q127216 · All animals · All entries