Today is Bald Eagle Day.—Elizabeth Periale
William L. Bailey, Our own birds; or a familiar natural history of the birds of the United States, 1863, "Bald eagle, Engraving of the national bird."
![Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants, 1731-43 [1729-48], The White headed Eagle [Aquila capite albos]](http://www.sil.si.edu/PAID/fullsize/SIL-007-051/SIL7-051-029.jpg "Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants, 1731-43 [1729-48], The White headed Eagle [Aquila capite albos]")
Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants, 1731-43 [1729-48], "The White headed Eagle [Aquila capite albos]."
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Histoire naturelle: générale et particulière (Oiseaux), 1799-1808, "1. Le Petit Aigle. 2. Le Pygargue."
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And to think that Benjamin Fraklin once considered the wild Turkey for our national bird. I guess it seemed logical to him, but no bird is more impressive than a Bald eagle