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🗓️ 16 April 2024
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0:00.0 | You're listening to a glass box media podcast. |
0:07.0 | Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast where I read random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice. |
0:18.0 | I'm your host Benjamin Foster. |
0:21.0 | Today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled Bald Eagle. |
0:27.0 | The Bald Eagle is a bird of prey found in North America. |
0:32.0 | A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the |
0:38.5 | white-tailed eagle, which occupies the same niche as the bald eagle in the paleoartic. |
0:45.5 | Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States and Northern Mexico. |
0:55.9 | It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting. The Bald Eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which |
1:07.5 | it swoops down upon and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests |
1:17.0 | ever recorded for an animal species up to four meters deep, 2.5 meters wide and 1 metric ton and weight. Sexual maturity is attained at the |
1:28.7 | age of 4 to 5 years. Bald eagles are not bald, the name derives from an older meaning of the word, white-headed. |
1:38.0 | The adult is mainly brown with a white head and tail. |
1:42.0 | The sexes are identical in plumage, but females are about 25% larger than males. |
1:48.0 | The yellow beak is large and hooked. The plumage of the immature is brown. |
1:55.4 | The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States of America and appears on its |
2:00.0 | seal. |
2:01.8 | In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the contiguous United States. |
2:07.0 | Populations have since recovered and the species status was upgraded from endangered to threatened in 1995. The bald eagle eagle is |
2:12.8 | endangered to threatened in 1995 and removed from the list altogether in 2007. |
2:18.8 | The bald eagle is placed in the genus Helietus, sea eagles, and gets both its common and specific scientific names from the distinctive appearance of the adult's head. |
2:37.0 | Bald in the English language is from an older usage, meaning having white on the face or head, rather than hairless, |
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