![]() ![]() ![]() The females tend to protect the nest and are often the more dominant of the mating pair, so it may be that larger mothers are more beneficial. This is true of most birds of prey, though ornithologists aren’t quite sure why. For this reason, eagle expert Connie Stanger told NPR that most of the images you see of bald eagles are of females. A bald eagle in iPhone’s portrait mode Jez/Flickr You mostly see pictures of the femalesįemale bald eagles are about 25 to 33 percent bigger than the males, sitting about three inches taller and having a five-inch-broader wingspan-that puts the average female at about three feet tall with a 7.5-foot wingspan. Their cries are piercing-and so that’s almost always what movies use in place of a real bald eagle call. ![]() Know what does sound impressive? A red-tailed hawk. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology calls it “a high, weak-sounding whinny”-you can listen here. They sound like a small bird you’d find in your yard or perhaps like a small turkey. This bald eagle fact became more widespread knowledge in 2012, when NPR published a story about how widespread this Hollywood mixup is. You know the sound you hear every time there’s a bald eagle in a movie or TV show? Yeah, that’s not a bald eagle. And as today is National American Eagle Day, we thought we’d bring you up to speed with some cool bald eagle facts. It’s why they’re a good national symbol-they seem so fearsome and regal.īut despite their image being absolutely freakin’ everywhere, the average American probably doesn’t know a whole lot about them. ![]()
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