Bald EaglesApril 2015

Habitat

The bald eagle lives near lakes. Bald eagles do not like to live on farms.

Bald eagles would prefer to live near forests near rivers. They do not want to live near

dumps!

Diet

Bald eagles feed on muskrat, turtles, and carrion. Carrion is dead animals.

They feed their babies fish and dead animals.

Nest/Egg Facts

They weave sticks, grass, moss, and cornstalks and fill in cracks.

Parent Bald Eagles lay 3 eggs from February to March.

Appearance

Until they are 4 or 5 years old the head feathers are brown. For six years the young stay near

the nest.

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.

The female bald eagle is larger than the male bald eagle. The female has a yellow beak.

Behavior

Adults go back to the same nest every year and add to it. The nest is about 10 feet long.

The female chooses where to put the nest. They both make it.

Conservation

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.

People were shooting, poisoning, and trapping the adult eagles. Biologist are doing an experiment on it.

Other Interesting Facts

Bald Eagles are not bald it is their name and there white hair. Bald Eagles lived in the wild about 32 years.

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.

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/