Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Kachemak Bay, Alaska🦅

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SpeciesAccipitriformesAccipitridae
Birds

🦅Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)

De Amerikaanse zeearend of witkopzeearend (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is een roofvogel die in Canada en in de Verenigde Staten broedt. Aan het eind van de twintigste eeuw stond de vogel op het punt van uitsterven, maar de populatie is tegenwoordig tot een stabiel niveau hersteld.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
4.7 kg
Body length
1 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
48 years
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Everything we know about the Bald Eagle

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.7 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male4.13 kgWikidataQ127216
  • Female5.35 kgWikidataQ127216

Figures vary

  • 3.17 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1 mmaximum recorded, total length
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Tail length
0.29 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.6 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.08 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.08 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
48 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
35 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
4.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bald Eagle yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Black Kite — last shared an ancestor ≈ 22 million years ago.
In other languages
Weißkopfseeadler (de), عقاب رخماء (ar), белоглав орел (bg), pigarg americà (ca), orel bělohlavý (cs), hvidhovedet havørn (da) … and 27 more languages
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