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The Wonderful World of Animals - Eagles and eat mostly fish, but they will DDT, which they ingested through on occasion eat other birds, ducks, the fish they eat. Since DDT was remuskrats, and sometimes turtles. stricted in 1972, their numbers have They will also eat carrion (dead rebounded, and as of 1995, their animals) and are known to rob other status was down-listed to threatanimals of their catches. They espeened instead of endangered, and cially like to harass ospreys who just in 2007 they were taken off the List caught fish, and of Endangered when the osprey and Threatened drops it, they Wildlife. They will snatch it up. continue to be They will even protected in the snatch a fish United States directly out of by the Bald and an osprey’s talGolden Eagle ons! The eagle’s Protection Act of sharp hooked 1940, however, Martial Eagle in Namibia beak helps it tear and illegal huntthrough its prey. ing and loss of wetland habitat Variations are still threats. Eagle is the Golden common name eagles are dark for members brown, with of a bird family lighter goldenknown as Accipibrown plumage tridae. There are on their necks. Philippine Eagle in Southern many species of They are the Philippines eagles around national bird of the world, but Mexico. Unlike just two – bald bald eagles, eagles and golden eagles – are found golden eagles can be found in North in the United States and Canada. America, Asia, Europe and Northern Africa, while the bald eagle is only The bald eagle is not really found in North America. bald. At one time, the old English word “balde” meant white-headed, Eagles in the Torah are a symbol not hairless. Its head is white, in of mercy and compassion. Hashem contrast to its dark-colored body. took us out of Egypt quickly, and Its feet and beak are yellow. Bald with mercy, just like an eagle cares eagles were nearly wiped out and for its young. May we soon be zoche were considered endangered until to the day when we fly to Yerusharecently. They were often hunted layim on the eagle’s wings! L for sport, and they also were at risk of death from pesticides like
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