The bald eagle has a distinctive white head and tail with a dark brown body. It has excellent eyesight and uses its broad wings and light hollow bones to fly and hunt for fish. The bald eagle spends much of its life breeding, finding a mate, building nests, and raising offspring. It was chosen as the national bird of the United States in 1782 and depicted in a drawing by William Burton. However, populations dramatically declined in the late 20th century due to hunting and the pesticide DDT until protections were put into place.

1. THE BALD EAGLE
BY L I N U S TAY LO R , K E L LY A R M S T R O N G , A N D AVA
B R I E S E

2. APPERENCE AND BEHAVIOR
The bald eagle has a beautiful appearance
and an odd behavior. For instance, the call
sounds like: wee wee wur wur, and the
feathers on its body and head make it
STANDOUT! The word Bald is an old English
word for white, so don’t worry the Bald eagle
is not actual bald. As weird as it sounds, the
bald eagle has eye sight like a human, it can
see in color, when most animals can’t. You
can identify it by the bright head and tail and
its dark body. The Bald Eagles Appearance is
what makes it stand out!

3. U.S.A. BIRD
“Do you know how the bald eagle got to be
the national emblem? “Well I can tell you.
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas
Jefferson got to chose the National Emblem
on July 4,1776. Ben thought a wild turkey
would fit perfectly. The Bald Eagle is a sacred
animal to native Americans. In 1782 William
Burton drew a picture of the bald Eagle for
the congress. The Congress enjoyed the
picture and from there on the bald Eagle
was the National Emblem.

4. FLYING
The bald Eagle has an amazing way of
flying. To help the bird fly, it has broad
wings and a large wingspan. Hollow
bones help it to be light weight and help
for flying. If you haven’t seen them
before, the Bald eagle is beautiful in
flight. The Bald eagle has many
techniques for flying and soaring. The
Bald Eagle is a great flyer.

5. BREEDING
The bald eagle spends more the half of its life
finding a mate, producing eggs and nesting,
this is called BREEDING. To find a mate, a male
Bald Eagle will let out a aerie call to the
females which surprising sounds like a crying
song or a baby yelling. Once a female becomes
interested in the male the couple go off to
build a nest called an aerie so that the female
can lay her spotless white eggs she will
produce four eggs and in two weeks top they
will break through their shell and turn into a
beautiful brown eaglet. Doing this process
takes good parenting, putting others before
them self and time for the Bald Eagles.

6. HUNTING
Every day the Bald Eagle has to hunt to
survive. The bald eagle manly feeds on
fish so they have to live near a body of
water. To catch the fish, they pear over
the water then when they spot a fish they
dive down to the water one eagle was
spotted diving at 100 miles per hour
down. Then they open their talons and
the updraft lifts them in the air from the
water with hopefully a fresh caught fish in
its talons. Then they go to a nearby tree
to eat, they use they curved beak to tear
apart their prey. The bald eagle’s beak,
talons and skills helps them to eat every
day!

7. DANGERS
In 1998, hunters could kill Eagles as a sport.
That brought the population down. DDT a
pesticide made their population by go
down2000 there were less than 2,500 Bald
eagles left. DDT hurt bald eagles badly
cause what they have might of ate it might
have been DDT. Pesticides hurt many birds.
DDT is now illegal but Please protect the
National Bird.

8. CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAAPHYWebsites
www.all about birds.org/guide/bald eagle
defenders.org /bald eagle /basic – facts
nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/bald -eagle
www. Nationalgeographic.com /animals/birds/b/bald eagle
books
The bald eagle by Pactrica Ryon Quiri. Publisher children
press. Place USA. Date 1998
Wild about Minnesota’s birds by Adele porter. Publisher
Adventure Publications Inc. Place Cambridge. Date 2007. Bald
eagles by Dr. Hugh Boome. Publisher children’s press. Place
Ny. Date 2019. The wonder of bald eagles by Eileen Foran.
Publisher Gareth Stevens publishing. Place Milwaukee. Date
1992. Soaring eagles by Charlotte Guillain . Publisher Rain
Tree. Place Chicago. Date 2013. Book of north American birds
by Readers Digest. Publisher world publishers group. Place
Canada .Date 2012. pictures Pics4Learning Pixabay-Free
images

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Special thanks to Ava Briese for gathering photos, Linus Taylor for creating
the PowerPoint and Kelly Armstrong for typing the paragraphs and Ms. Bennett !!