Wild Alaska

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Winter in Haines, AK can be brutal but beautiful. With the thermometer dangling around zero, the animals of this beautiful landscape have adapted to the bitter surrounding landscape over many generations.

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  • The average lifespan of bald eagle in the wild is around 20 years, with the oldest confirmed one having been 38 years of age.
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  • The Bald Eagle is named for the white heads of the adult birds. It was named by American colonists at a time when bald meant "white, not hairless". It takes about 5 years for about five years for the distinctive while feathers of the head and tail to gradually appear. Immature bald eagles are a mottled brown and white, and the young birds have a black beak as apposed to the adult's yellow beak.
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  • Eagles are protected by the "Bald & Golden Eagle Protection Act", of 1962. It currently prohibits anyone, without permit, from "taking" bald eagles. Taking is described to include their parts, nests, or eggs, molesting or disturbing the birds.
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  • The effects of DDT on the Alaskan Eagles was nearly catastrophic with more than 100.000 animals killed from 1917 to 1963.
  • The bald eagle's main diet consists of mostly fish, including herring, flounder, pollock and salmon. Eagles can also eat waterfowl, small mammals, sea urchins, clams , crabs and carrion.
  • This eagle is taking advantage of a frozen fish found on a beach in Haines, Alaska. Although they are adept hunters, they often prefer to eat the food of another eagle after chasing it of the catch. The talons on the end of the toes are curved and razor-sharp for catching and holding their prey. Rough bumps on the eagle's toes also help them hold slippery, wiggling fish.
  • The bald eagle became a national emblem of the United States since 1782, they have been a spiritual symbol for Alaska Natives for longer than that.
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  • Bald eagles often use and rebuild the same nest each year. Nest trees are usually close to the water, allow for a clear view of the surrounding area, and often provide sparse cover above the nest. Nest building begins in April and both the make and female gather nest material.
  • Eagle eggs arrive in April, dull white or creamy yellow. They are laid several days apart. Incubation lasts about 35 days. When they hatch, sibling rivalry is common and the weaker usually younger chick is killed or starved. The surviving young remain in the nest for approximately 75 days.
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  • Found only in North America, bald eagles are more abundant in Alaska than anywhere else in the United States. The Alaska population is estimated at 30, 000 birds.
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