DESCRIPTION: The bald eagle is a large raptor with a wingspread around seven feet. Adults have a dark-brown body and wings, a white head and tail, and a yellow beak, with females larger than males; ...

Both sexes have brown bodies and acquire their white heads and tail feathers in their sixth year ... RANGE: The species lives throughout North America, south to northern Mexico. MIGRATION: Bald eagle ...

Last fall, the 90th anniversary migration season at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary set another record for the bald eagle with ... dark birds with the diagnostic white head and tail that passed the ...