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Vk hen a deer was hit by a car near my house this fall, a bald eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus1 took up residence in the trees near the carcass. 1 \ as thrilled to Watch this magnificent bird for the few days it was there.
In my travels in the Pacific Northwest, I had seen bald eagles many times. However, growing up in Virginia, the only live eagles I saw were in the National Zoo.
Vihile the Chesapeake Bay alone may have provided habitat for as many as 3,000 pairs of breeding bald eagles when the European colonists arrived, use of the deadly pesticide DDT and loss of habitat had all but eliminated the bald eagle from the Commonwealth, and most other places east of the Mississippi' by the early 1970s.
When I returned to Virginia in the 1980s, I was pleased to see that the bald eagle was making an impressive comeback here. I often saw a pair that was nesting on an island in the middle of the Potomac, and at a Nature Conservancy meeting at Mason Neck Wild Life Refuge, I learned that almost 100 eagles — mostly bachelor males — wintered there.
Federal protection and a ban on DDT were the biggest factors in the eagle’s comeback, although habitat loss is still a threat.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, having concluded that the bald eagle has fully recovered,
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