- The strike of the eagle talon is so powerful that it's force is twice that of a rifle bullet.
- Whenever a Bald Eagle migrates south it always goes to the same spot and when it returns north it always goes back to the same spot.
- Sub adult eagles that have not yet made a breeding territory are believed to wander more.
- Adult eagles usually stay near their nesting territory as the supply of food and weather conditions will allow..
- Bald Eagles are the national symbol of the United States
- Eagles have great eyesight that helps them see for one to one and a half miles away. (Thus the term eagles eye) They can dive at 100 miles per hour. Their eyesight and diving ability help them catch food.
- Bald Eagles help man by catching rodents and rabbits that destroy grain fields.
- Bald Eagles can fly with 8 pounds of food.
- Bald Eagles normally eat fish. Sometimes they will eat snakes and smaller birds.
- There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.
- Pound for pound, an eagle's wing is stronger than the wing of an airplane.
- An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
- An eagle's nest located in Maryland, USA reportedly weighed about 3,000 pounds.
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