The bald eagle is bird with a white head brown body and bright yellow eyes. it has sharp claws on its feet and a hooked to catch and eat fish.
it is the national symbol of the United States and it appears on US money.
the bald eagle got its name from the early colonists. In those days bald meant white. In the 1700 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 chemical sprayed on crops.
In 1940 the government banned hunting but it did not make much of a difference. In the 1960 scientists noticed that only 450 pairs of bald eagle endangered species list. By the 1980 numbers were rising again.
Today,the bald eagle is safe from extinction.