They are also known to eat wild ducks, rabbits, herons, pigs, fawns, egrets, chickens, squirrels, opossums, lambs, and goats. In addition, they regularly feed on carrion left by other predators or which is found along roads or on livestock range. Incubation lasts for 35 days. The nestlings require a long time to grow and develop to flying size lasting up to three months before the eaglets fledge. Both parents participate in incubation as well as care for and feed the nestlings after hatching.
Breeding occurs only once every single year in bald eagles.
SPAN Bald eagles live just above 40 years in the wild, and potentially up to 50 years in captivity. The bald eagle has no natural enemies, and it is rare that predation by other animals occurs to the eggs or eaglets. Man is the major enemy of the bald eagle. For many years, the bald eagle was listed as an endangered species. As bald eagles preyed upon fish, the build up of DDT residues in the females resulted in production of thin fragile egg shells.