bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

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bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Description
Plate 11 of Birds of America by John James Audubon depicting Bird of Washington. Though ornithologists generally consider that Audubon's "Bird of Washington" was a misidentified juvenile Haliaeetus leucocephalus, a few authors have thought he might have been right to call it a different, significantly bigger, already very rare species http://books.google.com/books?id=jyTEgs1jJpAC&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Date 1827-1838
Source University of Pittsburgh
Author John James Audubon (1785–1851)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11_Bird_of_Washington.jpg

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek hali "sea", aiētos "eagle", leuco "white", cephalos "head") is a bird of prey found in North America. Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico.

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