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Bald eagle perched on a post against a blue sky

Aves · Accipitriformes

Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Builds the largest tree nest of any bird species, with pairs reusing and enlarging the same structure over decades until it can exceed 4 meters deep and weigh over a ton.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1368 licence-filtered records across 284 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (3)