"rw" wrote in message
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According to the Audubon Master Guide to Birding, Bald Eagles actually
run a bit larger than Golden Eagles: 76-109cm for the Bald vs. 76-101.5
for the Golden.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I googled up this website yesterday http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/index.html
; it points out that there are two basic species of baldies- the southern
bald and the northern bald- the dividing line is about the 40th parallel.
The southerns tend to be smaller than the northern bird. maybe we saw a
golden whacked be a southern bald- hard to say. But the presumed golden
eagle was noticeably "bigger" than the bald.

When the Golden took off after his spat with the Bald- he launched and flew
upriver, banked across the river just in front of the boat, and headed
downriver- I'll bet he took about 400 or more yards to gain tree top height-
looked like a fully loaded B 52 trying to get off the ground.
jh