Bald Eagles...Bald eagles feed on muskrat, turtles, and carrion. Carrion is dead animals.
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Bald EaglesApril 2015
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Habitat
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The bald eagle lives near lakes. Bald eagles do not like to live on farms.
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Bald eagles would prefer to live near forests near rivers. They do not want to live near
dumps!
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Diet
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Bald eagles feed on muskrat, turtles, and carrion. Carrion is dead animals.
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They feed their babies fish and dead animals.
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Nest/Egg Facts
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They weave sticks, grass, moss, and cornstalks and fill in cracks.
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Parent Bald Eagles lay 3 eggs from February to March.
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Appearance
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Until they are 4 or 5 years old the head feathers are brown. For six years the young stay near
the nest.
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The male bald eagle is smaller than the female. He looks just like the female with a white head and tail. The body is covered in dark brown feathers.The
male Bald Eagle huddles with hundreds.
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The female bald eagle is larger than the male bald eagle. The female has a yellow beak.
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Behavior
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Adults go back to the same nest every year and add to it. The nest is about 10 feet long.
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The female chooses where to put the nest. They both make it.
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Conservation
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There were bugs down deep in the water and the fish ate the bugs. The Bald Eagles ate the fish. The bugs ate a chemicals called DDT. DDT made the eggs
soft and broke.
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People were shooting, poisoning, and trapping the adult eagles. Biologist are doing an experiment on it.
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Other Interesting Facts
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Bald Eagles are not bald it is their name and there white hair. Bald Eagles lived in the wild about 32 years.
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The Bald Eagle has been around since 1782. The male and female Bald Eagle build their nests but the female picks the tree to build their nest in.
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BibliographyStudents used the following web sites to research this project:● The Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds http://www.allaboutbirds.
org/guide/bald_eagle/lifehistory● Species Spotlight: Introducing Bald Eagles & Eagle Cam to your Students
http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/downloads/cwnj_617.pdf● Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Bald Eagles http://www.
conservewildlifenj.org/downloads/cwnj_15.pdf● Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Fun Facts About the Bald
Eagle http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/downloads/cwnj_48.pdf● Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey New Jersey Endangered and
Threatened Field Guide http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/species/fieldguide/view/Haliaeetus%20leucocephalus/