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Eagles compete against each other for food and mates. They fight mid-air to see who gets what. They also fight other animals for food, in this case salmon, such as snakes, wolves, and bears. As the bear eats the salmon the eagle who hasn't eaten in days has to take the fish from the bear by smacking it in the face to drop it and steal the fish.

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The Bald Eagle is at the top of the food web and they are carnivores so they hunt. They usually hunt snakes, turtles, salmon, and other birds. They also steal the prey of other animals and scavenge for dead animals.

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Defensive mechanisms and life structures/span.

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Defensive mechanisms and life structures/span.

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The defense mechanism of this eagle is its large, sharp talons to use to attack whatever animal is attacking it. They also use their beaks which are also very strong to bite and tear the skin of whoever is attacking them.

Bald Eagles start as eggs put in nests that the parents build that are 5-6 ft in diameter and 2-4 feet tall. The eggs look dull-white, 2.3-3.3 inches tall, and 1.9-2.5 inches wide.
The nestling period lasts 56-98 days long and the incubation period lasts 34-36 days. When the egg hatches and the eagle is fully grown they are 30-31 inches tall and have a wingspan of 6-7 feet. They also live up to 20-30 years old.

Bald Eagles find a mate for life. Their realtionship involves elaborate calls and flight displays. One way they do it is whenever they find their mate the fly up into the sky and lock their talons together and spin down and separate when they are about to hit the ground. Whenever they are ready to build a nest they find a place where the trees are high and with few disturbances and with a good place to fish close by.

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Through recent times and through human development we have created fisher posts on the shores of rivers and lakes.  Though we have built these for the betterment of humans it is detrimental to the Bald Eagle due to them losing the shoreline for them to hunt for fish.

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The Bald Eagle is a species of sea eagle known as

Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Today Bald Eagles live in North America, Canada, North America, and Mexico. In 2019, Yellowstone monitored 31 eagles and there were 20 active nests, but only 7 of those nests produced offspring.

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Work Cited

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XMWMLoZToY_GPDVBpbiMoZOkTUtwoWVNl_Qxk3WHWf8/edit?usp=sharing

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Populations declined precipitously in the mid-to-late 1900s, likely from persecution by the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, which reduced reproductive success.