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Bald Eagle Facts
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- An eagle weighs between 9 and 14 pounds.
- Eagles can soar for hours on end.
- This incredible bird can see its prey from as far as a mile away.
- Although the diet of eagles is primarily fish, they will scavenge dead animals as a source of food.
- Bald eagles live in forests near the shores of lakes and rivers.
- The eggs of a bald eagle take about a month to a month and a half to hatch.
- Eagles are a threatened species. They were reclassified from "endangered" to "threatened" in the lower 48 states in 1994.
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