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Bald Eagle
30.6001, -91.4063
Field Notes
Description:
The July 4th, 1776 one a day of a high emotion hour after daring independence. Congress asked Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and John Adams to choose the emblem for fledgling United States “What symbol would best represent a new saver eigen nation and free people”. The committee first looked to history, and began with a classical design, then inspiration stepped in. They turn to the narrative to something powerful alive. The bald eagle was distinctly American. The ultimate emblem of nation with the soaring aspiration. Since then, the American Eagle had swings of fortune every bit as dramatic as those of the United States.
Habitat:
Coasts, rivers, large lakes; in migration, also mountains, open country. Typically, close to water, also locally in open dry country. Occurs in a variety of waterside settings where prey is abundant, including swamps in Florida, edges of conifer forest in southeastern Alaska, treeless islands in Aleutians, desert rivers in Arizona. Also winters in some very dry western valleys.
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