The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey indigenous to North America, and is the national symbol of the United States. The species was on the brink of extinction late in the 20th century but has largely recovered and now has a stable population and is no longer on the US federal list of endangered animals.
The Bald Eagle can be found in small concentrations throughout the US and Canada particularly near sizeable bodies of water. The state with the largest resident population is Alaska (out of the 100,000 or so Bald Eagles on Earth, half live in Alaska.)
The bird gets its English and scientific names from the distinctive white color of the adult's head feathers. Baeld is the Old English word for white; Haliaeetus is the New Latin for sea eagle, from Greek haliaetos, and leucocephalus is the Greek for white head, from leukos (white) and kephale (head).
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