FOOD OP THE BALD EAGLE 



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Stories relating the carrying of small children to the eyries of these 

 great birds are to be generally discredited, the more careful writers 

 giving credence to only one or two of the numerous published stories 

 of this kind. 



Mr. G. H. Berry has on several occasions observed the Bald Eagle 

 in March feeding on dead fish, mainly carp, that were frozen in the 

 ; ~~ of Cedar lake, within the city limits of Cedar Rapids. 



Where fish can be secured this seems to be their chief diet ; mam- 

 mals, birds and offal constitute most of the remainder. 



Fig. 60. Map showing the distribution in Iowa of the Bald Eagle. 



