How to Use bald eagle in a Sentence

bald eagle

noun
  • The packages had pictures of a bald eagle on the frond.
    Josh Feldman, NBC News, 20 June 2024
  • The park has a bald eagle sanctuary that, at one million cubic feet, is the largest in the country.
    Julie Tremaine, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2020
  • In the battle for air supremacy, a bald eagle just proved that technology is no match for brute strength.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Just last month, a pair of bald eagle parents was spotted nesting in a saguaro cactus in Arizona.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2020
  • And that is to kill off the bald eagles and ospreys that have repopulated the lower river valley.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
  • Watch for raptors like the Peregrine falcon, bald eagle, red-tailed hawk and those goshawks that Edge fought so hard to protect.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
  • For the first time in 115 years, wildlife officials have spotted a bald eagle nest with eggs on Cape Cod.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2020
  • Overhead some osprey, a hawk and a bald eagle glided among the nearby tupelo, sweet gum and oak-hackberry forest trees.
    Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • The American eagle is also a bald eagle, whereas the Nazi eagle is depicted as an all-black bird.
    Will Peebles, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
  • As their population bounces back, bald eagle nests have been popping up across the United States—sometimes in surprising places.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2020
  • Along the southwestern edge of the Kenai Peninsula, the town of Homer is another bald eagle hotspot.
    Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2020
  • Those tuning in on Zoom or Facebook Live will get to see appearances from kestrels (small falcons), a bald eagle, a screech-owl and an osprey.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The six-acre park has roughly 190 animals to see, which include bald eagles, porcupines, otters, emus and laughing kookaburras.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
  • Traffic to the bald eagle and owl Wikipedia pages spiked in 2020.
    Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 25 June 2021
  • Share [Findings] In Maine, a loon stabbed a bald eagle through the heart.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The bald eagles have been successful in the past, though.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the middle of it all stood a man dressed as a red-white-and-blue bald eagle.
    New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Share [Findings] In Maine, a loon stabbed a bald eagle through the heart.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Share [Findings] In Maine, a loon stabbed a bald eagle through the heart.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • One of the concerns was the bald eagle’s nest on the Piper Glen country club golf course.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2024
  • Hoping to elk and spot bald eagles in the Grand Tetons in July?
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Songbirds sang in the trees and a lone bald eagle circled above.
    oregonlive, 23 June 2021
  • On this trip, the passengers gasp at the squadron of five bald eagles overhead.
    Robert N. Jenkins, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Years after saving the bald eagle, 82 of them could be killed in NY wind farm projects.
    USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Tuffy is a baby red-tailed hawk who was stolen from his nest by a bald eagle on May 20.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • In 2007, the bald eagle was taken off the Endangered Species List, Rheude said.
    Peter Krouse, cleveland, 23 June 2022
  • Martha’s Vineyard: Two great egrets, a bald eagle, and a common raven.
    Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Next to the skull are two bald eagles in flight — a light eagle on one side of his neck and a dark eagle on the other.
    Kara Nesvig, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Not long ago one recorded a bald eagle flying past, a fish in its talons.
    Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Bill Clinton went to the shores of Chesapeake Bay to watch a young bald eagle named Freedom be released to the wild.
    Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 4 July 2023

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