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The iconic bald eagle is the only eagle found exclusively in North America, where it lives from the Arctic to the Florida subtropics in nearly any habitat close to suitable bodies of water. Basically, it is a standard fish eagle and gets much of its food from fish (scavenged or captured alive), but it will also eat pretty much any carrion and can be a capable predator of mammals and large birds like ducks -- or as shown here, coots. The characteristic adult plumage is attained after several years of brown and whitish juvenile and subadult plumages (I think this is a second-year bird). It was photographed at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area near Riverside, California; other eagle pictures are on this page; pictures of bald eagles in winter are here, and images of flying eagles are here. |
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