Do bald eagles fly south for the winter? Or do they stay relativly in the same area?
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i live in mich. the baldies here migrate from inland to warm water discharges at the muddy banks of the great lakes, they are very plentiful here in the winter when we're in a deep freeze it is an amazeing site to see them here fishing. last years count (during the annual bird count here was phenominal the largest number in many years) so i guess my answer is no they do not migrate only short distance to find food and by the way they start nesting here in feb.the nests that are here are highly protected by the dnr at that time especially
yuetuyhtyu
I believe they stay in the area. I do know that mating eagles use the same nesting site for years!
They migrate.
http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/
http://www.eagles.org/moreabout.html..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bald_eagle..
"In winter, eagles that nest northern areas migrate south and gather in large numbers near open water areas where fish and other prey are plentiful. Eagles that nest in the south during the winter migrate north in the summer where food is plentiful."
The Bald Eagle's natural range includes most of North America, including most of Canada, all of the continental United States, and northern Mexico. The bird itself is able to live in most of North America's varied habitat from the bayous of Louisiana to the Sonoran desert to the eastern deciduous forests of Quebec and New England. It can be a migratory bird but it also is not unheard of for a nesting pair to overwinter in a particular area. Once a common sight in much of the continent, the Bald Eagle was severely affected by the use of the pesticide DDT in the mid-twentieth century. While the pesticide itself was not lethal to the bird, its exposure would either make an eagle sterile or inhibit its ability to lay healthy eggs: the eagle would ingest the chemical through its food and then lay eggs that were too brittle to withstand the weight of a brooding adult. By the 1960's there were fewer than 500 nesting pairs in the 48 contiguous states of the USA. Currently it is still slowly but steadily recovering its numbers; it can be found in growing concentrations throughout the United States and Canada, particularly near large bodies of water. The U.S. state with the largest resident population is Alaska; out of the estimated 100,000 Bald Eagles on Earth, half live there.
Bald Eagles are protected by two federal laws in the United States: the Bald Eagle Protection Act (1940), which protects Bald and Golden Eagles, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (1918).
This species has occurred as a vagrant once in Ireland. The poor exhausted specimen was discovered by a national parks worker in a northern heath. Presumably, a storm blew it out to sea, and the bird struggled across the Atlantic Ocean.
The only Bald Eagle to be hatched outside North America was born on May 3, 2006 in a zoo in the German city of Magdeburg.
They mirgrate. But they come back to the area where they were born. They make and nest and use it year after year.
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i live in mich. the baldies here migrate from inland to warm water discharges at the muddy banks of the great lakes, they are very plentiful here in the winter when we're in a deep freeze it is an amazeing site to see them here fishing. last years count (during the annual bird count here was phenominal the largest number in many years) so i guess my answer is no they do not migrate only short distance to find food and by the way they start nesting here in feb.the nests that are here are highly protected by the dnr at that time especially
yuetuyhtyu
I believe they stay in the area. I do know that mating eagles use the same nesting site for years!
They migrate.
http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/
http://www.eagles.org/moreabout.html..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bald_eagle..
"In winter, eagles that nest northern areas migrate south and gather in large numbers near open water areas where fish and other prey are plentiful. Eagles that nest in the south during the winter migrate north in the summer where food is plentiful."
The Bald Eagle's natural range includes most of North America, including most of Canada, all of the continental United States, and northern Mexico. The bird itself is able to live in most of North America's varied habitat from the bayous of Louisiana to the Sonoran desert to the eastern deciduous forests of Quebec and New England. It can be a migratory bird but it also is not unheard of for a nesting pair to overwinter in a particular area. Once a common sight in much of the continent, the Bald Eagle was severely affected by the use of the pesticide DDT in the mid-twentieth century. While the pesticide itself was not lethal to the bird, its exposure would either make an eagle sterile or inhibit its ability to lay healthy eggs: the eagle would ingest the chemical through its food and then lay eggs that were too brittle to withstand the weight of a brooding adult. By the 1960's there were fewer than 500 nesting pairs in the 48 contiguous states of the USA. Currently it is still slowly but steadily recovering its numbers; it can be found in growing concentrations throughout the United States and Canada, particularly near large bodies of water. The U.S. state with the largest resident population is Alaska; out of the estimated 100,000 Bald Eagles on Earth, half live there.
Bald Eagles are protected by two federal laws in the United States: the Bald Eagle Protection Act (1940), which protects Bald and Golden Eagles, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (1918).
This species has occurred as a vagrant once in Ireland. The poor exhausted specimen was discovered by a national parks worker in a northern heath. Presumably, a storm blew it out to sea, and the bird struggled across the Atlantic Ocean.
The only Bald Eagle to be hatched outside North America was born on May 3, 2006 in a zoo in the German city of Magdeburg.
They mirgrate. But they come back to the area where they were born. They make and nest and use it year after year.
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