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bald eagle

noun

  1. a large, fish-eating eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, of the U.S. and Canada, having dark golden-brown back and wings, and white plumage on the head and tail in the adult: some recently endangered populations are now recovering.


bald eagle

noun

  1. a large eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus , of North America, having a white head and tail, a yellow bill, and dark wings and body. It is the US national bird
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bald eagle1

An Americanism dating back to 1680–90
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Example Sentences

It filled in the gap until actual numbers for bald eagle collisions became available.

On the two-hour boat-taxi ride alone, my group caught glimpses of sea otters, bald eagles, Steller sea lions, Dall’s porpoises, a humpback whale, and too many nesting seabirds to count.

The island is surrounded by Tongass National Forest and is part of the Inside Passage, so there’s a good chance you’ll spot a whale or a bald eagle from your barstool.

The mystery of the unknown toxin began at an Arkansas lake during the winter of 1994–95 with the nation’s largest unexplained die-off of bald eagles.

Spanning nearly 2 meters from tip to tip, the fins’ length rivals the wingspan of bald eagles.

It may have been a confluence of factors, but going bald eagle became not so much a choice as an expectation.

The balding Prince of Wales had a brush with a bald eagle at the Sandringham Flower Show yesterday.

Our national symbol may be the bald eagle but it might as well be the moving van—or, previously, the covered wagon.

He stops to point out a bald eagle landing on a rock in the river.

Besides the bald eagle on the Presidential Seal, who holds 13 arrows in one claw and an olive branch in the other.

It was a magnificent bald eagle—the first I had ever seen outside of a zoological garden.

The bald eagle and the white eagle were favorites, and the vultures and condors were disliked by all.

I saw a bald eagle sail by, and then two golden eagles winging heavy flight after him.

These may be distinguished from the Bald Eagle in all plumages by the completely feathered tarsus.

The roads were in too wretched a condition for the "Bald Eagle's" one rickety carriage to attempt to plough through.

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