4. Bald eagle facts
When one feather falls the other
(that the same)falls from the other
side.
Bald eagles can weigh ten to
fourteen pounds.
Bald eagles have 7,000 feathers.
Nesting cycle-about 20 weeks.
Lifting power-about four pounds.
A female is bigger than a male.
Bald eagles are big and powerful.
Bald eagles can grow 29 to42 inches
long.
They live in the wild for 20 years.
Bald eagles are not bald.
The bald eagle is the bird of prey.
5. Endangered Animals
Bald eagles became endangered in 1967.
Natural habitat destroyed.
People hunt the same food as bald eagles.
More than 100,000 killed from 1917 to 1953
Today no longer endangered.
9. Life cycle
The mother lays 1-3 eggs.
The mother sits on the egg for a few weeks.
The father feeds the eaglets.
The young eagle looks different than a adult.
When the bald eagle is 4 or 5 years , it gets to breed
10. What kills a bald eagle
Humans
Owls
Wolves
Other eagles
Raccoons
Fox
11. How humans kill bald eagles
Hitting them with cars.
Destroying natural
habitats.
Hunting the same food
as bald eagles.
Poisoning the bald
eagles prey.