Eagle Statistics

• Female eagles are larger than the male eagle. Female eagles can reach up to 14 pounds and have a wingspan of up to 8 feet. Male eagles weigh 7 to 10 pounds and have a wingspan of about 6.5 feet.
• They build nests near rivers, lakes, and marshes.
• Bald eagles lay up to 3 eggs a year. Both parents incubate the egg.
• Eagles mate for life.
• They have been known to live 30 years in the wild, and even longer in captivity.
• Bald Eagles do not get their white heads until they are 4 or 5 years old. Until that age they are brown.
• Eagles are mostly opportunistic hunters. They wait for someone else to catch food and then they steal it from them.
• But if they do hunt they like to hunt for fish, rodents, ducks and snakes.
• Eaglets have a dark beak and black eyes, but the eyes and beak change to bright yellow as the eaglet matures.
• The biggest nest ever seen was 20 feet deep, 10 feet wide, and weighed two tons.
• Their eyesight is 5 to 6 times sharper than ours.
• Eagles can fly up to 60 mph and can dive at 100 mph.
• Bald eagles can swim. They have been known to misjudge the size of a fish and have to swim it to shore, using its wings like paddles.