The Southern Bald Eagle 



hopeless. We who enjoy nature's variety, we who appreciate nature's 

 splendors, we who love the thrills of nature's own choosing, we who do 

 obeisance to the Creative Infinite expressed in Snowy Egrets and Birds 

 of Paradise and Swans and Eagles and Condors, we are a pitiful minority. 

 Do not mind us. Kill, rob, devastate, poison, and utterly exterminate 

 all who lift their heads above the common ruck. We shall still have 

 left — Linnets. 



Bald Eagles formerly and effectually occupied the entire continent 

 of North America north of Mexico and south of middle Hudson Bay. 

 They were Common on the Atlantic seaboard and abundant on the coasts 

 of Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. They have been reduced 

 in two centuries to perhaps a hundredth of their former numbers, and in 

 considerable sections of the interior are no longer seen at all. Those which 

 breed in the high North must fall back in winter before a failing food 

 supply; and the appearance, almost certainly fortuitous, of several eagles 



Taken on Santa Cruz Island 



AN UNOCCUPIED NEST 



Pholo by the A ulhor 



THIS STRUCTURE MEASURES 1 1 FEET IN DEPTH ON ITS SEA FRONT. IT HAS PROBABLY BEENJ3CCUPIED 

 INTERMITTENTLY FOR HALF A CENTURY 



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