Animals / Bird

Bald eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus · Accipitridae

The bald eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle, which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the Palearctic. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico.

Where the Bald eagle lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in British Columbia, California, Florida, Texas, Ontario and Maryland.

See the Bald eagle’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 7,798,913 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.