Bald Eagle Facts: NOT actually BALD 🦅 Animal Fact Files

Bald eagles have the common name bald eagle, but they're not actually bald! They get the common name "bald eagle" from the word "piebald". Learn more bald eagle facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!

Scientific Name: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Range: North America
Habitat: Trees near bodies of water
Size: 6.5 feet (2m) wingspan; About 10 pounds (4.5kg)
Diet: Fish, birds, and mammals
Threats: Birds and squirrels as eggs
Life span: About twenty years in the wild; Up to fifty years in captivity

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[youssefhamidi]

Beautiful bird. No wonder it was chosen as the national symbol. Far more pleasing than the california condor 😂

[penny_the_wiser]

I have Bald Eagles near where I live. They live along the river. Sometimes I go watch them.

[t-rexstudioproductions]

Juvenile bald eagles are look more like the small version of the Haast eagle

[chaoticfish]

Try making a video about wood frogs, they are really *cool*
Puns are great

[Binzany]

Have a large number growing here at my home in swva love seeing them in my yard daily ❤

[Wtfwtfwtfx]

I grew up in southern california and seen them many times....because i had a lot.of homing pigeons, tbey would hunt them...the crows would come in the dozens and attack the eagles...tbey saved my favorite pigeon. The eagle dropped him...

[TangerineUSAF]

Where I live in Ohio on the sioto river I’ve seen up to 7 of them feasting on a previously raccoon feast of catfish piled up after a flood. It was near thanks giving too

[pineappleginseng]

Absolutely beautiful birds! Unfortunately, I can't remember ever seeing one in the wild, but I do remember a few years ago, we found a golden eagle in our front lawn, where it was enjoying a squirrel as a meal. My girlfriend and her mother were pretty mortified by the sight, but her brother, her father, and I were absolutely in awe of how beautiful (and brutal) it was to see something like this! I suppose it was a little gruesome, but man oh man... Sure, we felt bad for the poor squirrel, but as unfortunate as it is, it must do what it must do to survive. It certainly was a sight, on the front lawn, of all places, too!

[iamsand]

Lol I’m just doing this for google classroom

[mranime]

Me : why American pick bald eagle as National Animal? 😐 They just know how to strike from back like coward and run after that- .... Wait a second 🤨 .. Now i got it 😅😂.. Because that's what America did to others country. 🔥🔥🔥😏

[hulick]

Bald meant white when they were named.

[theskoomacat]

Cool birds but only if the were bigger.

[UltraMagaFan]

These birds really are bullies. I love watching them fight ospreys for fish. One time I saw them lock up and spiral towards the ground. It was pretty cool.

[Cinnamonrollover-wq]

Well looks like I’m working because I am actually live in America I like that look like they were chosen for the United States how to speak of America shitty weather America because I never learned about worry about South America North America is part of America for a different country I don’t cry get it because I’m a kid I’m only six years old

[jjwalden]

Who has ever been offended by the bald eagle? What in the communist is this channel?