Loons, bald eagles and seals are common sights, and you may even spot a whale offshore.
The Channel Islands had resident populations of bald eagles, who fed on marine critters contaminated with DDT.
The wind turbines kill indiscriminately, slicing to death federally protected bald eagles, golden eagles, and other cherished species.
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Bald eagles had vanished from all but the remote corners of the county, and they were the national symbol.
Giant cedars, bald eagles and icy glaciers are all part of the scenery in this part of the world.
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Wildlife ranging from seabirds and sea otters to whales and bald eagles were covered and killed by the oil.
The park even has a sanctuary for bald eagles injured in the wild.
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Owners of windmills that kill thousands of birds a year, including bald eagles, are not prosecuted under the migratory bird act.
Endangered species from bald eagles to alligators in Florida's waterways also are clawing their way back from the edge of extinction.
As the bald eagles died out, golden eagles migrated from the mainland.
In the summer, hike to redwood heights in Sluice Boxes State Park and spot white-tailed deer and bald eagles as you climb.
This is a place an hour from wilmington where bald eagles nest, muskrats swim and you can explore sunken ships at low tide.
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Bald eagles, for example, will prey on any cranes that are injured or left behind when the roosts fly to the fields for feeding.
Stay in Vancouver for a few nights before heading up to nearby Squamish to see the great bald eagles, as the picturesque city neighbors the mountains.
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No gilding the lily--the splendor comes from the outside in: the huge view of Barnard Harbour, the bald eagles in the trees, the otters paddling by the dock.
Wesley Brumback rhapsodizes about planting 350 bare-root orange trees in two days, seeing bald eagles dive for fish in the grove's reservoirs and watching trailers roll out with his fruit.
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So in addition to a healthy local population of bald eagles, hundreds of other eagles from Canada and New England spend the winters around here, feasting on fish, geese and ducks.
As you drive further along the coast, look for seals basking in the sun, bald eagles scanning the area for food and brown bears making their way through the surrounding forest or crossing the road.
More than 300 white pelicans, 23 endangered wood storks, 50 other fish-eating birds (great blue herons, cormorants, ring-billed gulls, common egrets), and three bald eagles have died near the lake northwest of Orlando.
Some 100 balloonists, including a slew who man special-shaped airships like dragons and bald eagles, converge on the region's parks and airports to launch against a backdrop of mountains awash in fall foliage.
Eagles are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, but they also have their very own law, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which Congress passed in 1940 to protect bald eagles and expanded in 1962 to cover goldens.
But Americans love their eagles, and windfarms from Maryland to California have made headlines recently for killing or imposing upon bald and golden eagles.
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