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 Bald Eagle Facts
The word “bald” originally meant “white-headed”.
Males and females are the same color. Both have a white head and tail, a yellow beak and yellow eyes.
Juvenile bald eagles do not have a white head until the age of 4 or 5. Their heads are mostly brown with splotches of white feathers n chest and wings.
Eagles are one of the largest birds of prey in the world. Adults are 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall. Females weigh up to 14 pounds with wingspan up to 8 feet. Males are smaller and weigh 7 to 10 pounds with a wingspan of up to 6 1/2 feet.
Eagles mostly eat fish- both saltwater and freshwater. They occasionally eat dead or crippled waterfowl and other wildlife.
Eagles mate for life and usually return to the same nesting area.
Eagles see in color. Their vision is four to six times sharper than a human eye. They can spot fish from several hundred feet away.
Eagles can fly from 20 to 40 miles per hour and dive at more than 100 miles per hour.
The “bald” eagle is listed as “threatened” in the continental United States.
Not all eagles migrate. About 105 bald eagles live in Oklahoma all year.
Copied from The Oklahoman 1-1-06
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