Bald eagle: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the bald eagle lives – recorded in 4 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Group	Birds of prey
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	4 countries
Continents	North America
Mass	117 g (birth weight); 4.13 kg (male organism, adult weight); 5.35 kg (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Accipitriformes
Family	Accipitridae

Where does the bald eagle live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the bald eagle in 4 countries and territories across North America. Wikidata gives its range as: Canada, United States, Mexico.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a bald eagle?

Wikidata records the following for the bald eagle: mass 117 g (birth weight); 4.13 kg (male organism, adult weight); 5.35 kg (female organism, adult weight).

Is the bald eagle endangered?

The bald eagle’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the bald eagle?

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird in the order Accipitriformes and the family Accipitridae, genus Haliaeetus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) 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 (Haliaeetus albicilla), 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. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.

The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder that subsists mainly on fish, upon which it swoops down and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species, up to 4 m (13 ft) deep, 2.5 m (8.2 ft) wide, and 1 metric ton (1.1 short tons) in weight. Sexual maturity is attained at the age of four to five years.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Bald eagle (revision 1380654016), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q127216 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).