Large birds like eagles need large nests! Bald eagle nests are about 5 to 6 feet in diameter and 2 to 4 feet tall. If the tree is strong enough, they will use the same nest again and again ...

In 2015, a wild eagle in Henrietta, New York, died at the record age of 38. Considering that these birds pair up at 4 or 5 years of age, that’s a lot of Valentine’s Days. Bald eagles built the ...

In the Aleutian Islands in Alaska I found bald eagles that were wilder and tougher than that. They were dirty, they were wet, and they fought with each other, which is not what we expect from our ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Bald eagles, aka Haliaeetus leucocephalus, seem to be models of decorum. The raptors mate for life, unless one partner ...

It's an unusual family - a pair of bald eagles have taken a baby red-tailed hawk into their nest and raised it alongside their own three chicks. The eagles' nest is located at the Shoal Harbour ...

The bald eagle, a long-standing symbol of strength and freedom, has been officially recognized as the national bird of the US after President Joe Biden signed a law. Introduced by Senator Amy ...