American Bald Eagle

[Jiff]

last week i was in a conversation with a guy who made comment of the bald eagle being extinct, i told him it wasnt, last night a second person told me that they were extinct, after quite a debate he refused to believe they werent, now i don't know a great deal about them but i read somewhere that they have now been removed from the endangered list which obviously means they're still about and doing well, can anyone throw light on to why these people were so adament that the birds were infact extinct, has there been a certain species wiped out? or maybe in the past theire numbers were so dangerously low that they may have mistakenly believed that they were correct? it just seemed odd that both these guys were so adament, theyre inteligent guys generaly.:roll:

[BlueBoy]

saw one catch a fish in florida last november mate.plenty of young ones about so i was told. Read somewhere years ago about their low numbers though.

[John Soulsby]

They are almost as common as Sparrowhawks in parts of america and Canada. Saw dozens on my last trip.

John

[BlueBoy]

more info jiff, the bald eagle was put on the national endangered species list in 1976, but there are more than 70,000 now, half which live in alaska,... aint google wonderfull.

[khan]

hi i fly a bald eagle, they were taken off the endagered list in 2004 they are still heaverly whatched there are 70,000 in alaska and just over 20,000 in northeren america but when recored begain they counted over 150,000 pairs

[BlueBoy]

hi i fly a bald eagle, they were taken off the endagered list in 2004 they are still heaverly whatched there are 70,000 in alaska and just over 20,000 in northeren america but when recored begain they counted over 150,000 pairs

amazing recovery