The majestic Bald Eagle is Canada's largest bird of prey. It ranges over most of the continent, from the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada down to northern Mexico. The Bald Eagle Early Eskimo and Indian hunters would look for flocks of eagles to tell them where the salmon were swimming, because eagles have better eyesight than we do. When they see many fish close to the surface they will flock together to catch them. Immatures lack the white markings.
Adults have a wing span of about two metres.
Males weigh an average of 2.5 kg and females 3.1 kg. In the late 1800s, the bald eagle was a common breeding bird along the Missouri River Valley in Nebraska. Migrant and wintering bald eagles were uncommon throughout the state, but wintering populations varied, as they do today, depending on the severity of the winter and availability of food. There are as many Bald Eagles as ever in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, Canada. These pictures were mostly taken in the trees next to the road near the village of Sheffield Mills.