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Definition: Bald Eagle |
Bald EagleNoun1. Large North American eagle having a white head and dark wings and body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Bald EagleSynonyms: American eagle (n), Haliaeetus leucocephalus (n). (additional references) |
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| Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
Adult females have a wingspan of approximately two meters (6 feet 6 inches); adult males are approximately two-thirds the size of the females.
Bald Eagles are sexually mature at 4 or 5 years of age. Mated pairs produce between one and three eggs per year, but it is rare for all three chicks to successfully fledge. Thus, third chicks are sometimes removed from nests to use in reintroduction programs in areas where the species has died out.
In such programs, the birds are raised in boxes, on platforms in the tree canopy, and fed in such a way that they cannot see the person supplying their food, until they are old enough to fly and thus find their own food.
Bald Eagles which are old enough to nest often return to the area in which they were raised. They are more social than many other raptor species: an adult eagle looking for a nesting site is more likely to select a location that contains other immature eagles than one with no eagle population.
The Bald Eagle's diet is varied, including fish, smaller birds, rodents, and sometimes food scavenged or stolen from campsites and picnics.
This species has occurred as a vagrant once in Ireland.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bald Eagle."
Crosswords: Bald Eagle |
| English words defined with "bald eagle": Fishhawk ♦ Ossifrage ♦ representative. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bald eagle": Death from Strange Causes. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Immature bald eagle.Credit: USDA. |
 | Bald Eagle in nest treeBirds of Prey National Conservation AreaBOPOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Unknown. |  | Close up head of a bald eagle.Credit: Unknown. |
 | Far shot of Bald Eagle perched on tree branch. Lakeview District.Credit: Terry Spivey. |  | Far shot of Bald Eagle in flight. Lakeview District.Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | Far shot of Bald Eagle in flight. Lakeview District.Credit: Terry Spivey. |  | Far shot of Bald Eagle in flight. Lakeview District.Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | Farshot of Bald Eagle perched on tree branch. Lakeview District.Credit: Terry Spivey. | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bald eagle | 4,490 |
american bald eagle | 996 |
bald eagle picture | 301 |
bald eagle photo | 98 |
bald eagle pic | 39 |
bald eagle information | 38 |
bald eagle state park | 24 |
bald eagle american flag | 22 |
bald eagle tattoo | 19 |
bald eagle wallpaper | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "bald eagle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Blackfoot | ksikkihkíni. (various references) | |
Danish | hvidhovedet havoern. (various references) | |
Dutch | zuidelijke witkoparend, Amerikaanse zeearend, Amerikaanse witkopzeearend. (various references) | |
French | pygargue tête blanche, aigle tête blanche (bald-headed eagle). (various references) | |
German | Weisskopfseeadler, weißköpfiger seeadler. (various references) | |
Greek | αλιαετός ο λευκοκέφαλος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fehérfejű réti sas. (various references) | |
Italian | aquila di mare della testa bianca. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 白 鷲 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はくとうわし. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aldbay eagleay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | águia de Pallas (Pallas's fishing eagle). (various references) | |
Russian | орлан. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Haliacetus leucocephalus. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-g-l-l" | |
-1 letter: begalled, gabelled. | |
-2 letters: alleged, ballade, gabelle, gelable, labeled. | |
-3 letters: allege, ballad, balled, beadle, beagle, bedell, begall, beglad, belled, gabled, galeae, galled, gelada, gelled, glebae. | |
-4 letters: abele, adage, aglee, algae, algal, allee, baaed, badge, bagel, baled, bedel, belga, belle, blade, bleed, eagle, gable, galea, glade, gleba, glebe, glede, gleed, label, ladle, ledge, legal. | |
-5 letters: abed, able, aged, agee, alae, alba, alee, alga, baal, bade, bald, bale, ball, bead, bell, blae, bled, dale, deal, dele, dell, edge, egad, egal, gaed, gala, gale, gall, geed, geld, glad, gled, glee, lade, lead, leal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 64 45 61 67 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01100100 00100000 01000101 01100001 01100111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l d   E a g l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0064 0045 0061 0067 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667787023967737871 |
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