The bald eagle is a largebird with a whith head, brown body and bright yellow eyes.it has sharp claws on its feet and a booked beak to catch and eat fish.
It is the national symbol of the united states of america and it appears onUS money.
The bald eagle got is name from the early colonists . In those days,'bald' meant 'white'. In the 1700s there were hundreds of thousands of these birds in North America. The eagle population became very small though because people hunted them and because of a dangerous chemicals sprayed on crops.
In 1940,the government banned hunting but it didn't make much of a difference.In the 1960s,scientists noticed that only 450 pairs of bald eagles were living in the wild.So,in 1978s numbers were rising again.Today,the bald eagle is safe from extinction