“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...

but golden eagles in Alaska and Canada may migrate south as far as 1,000 miles to wintering areas. You can hear the sound of bald eagles on allaboutbirds.org here. Eagles have about 7,000 feathers.