They are starting to make a comeback where I live. Hopefully they will make it totally back and we won't have an extinct bird on our currency.
You will see them in colder climates especially near rivers and water sources, plus they migrate further south in North America during winter to areas they haven't been seen in for a long time (esp. when the temperatures dip). Some old news: U.S. Declares Bald Eagles No Longer Threatened -Washington Post, Friday, June 29, 2007
Here's a pic a friend of mine recently sent me of some eagles near our place on the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri... very cool!!
flying eagle cent half dime from 1794 to 1837 dime from 1796 to 1837 20 cent piece quarter from 1796 to 1998, except for the bicentennial half dollar, except for the franklins and the bicentennial all silver dollars $1 coin, except for the bicentennial, 2009 and later sacs, and the pres series all quarter eagles all half eagles all eagles all double eagles 12 total, unless you count the different designs
The above photo was taken by me at the Toledo Zoo in 2007...really a cool bird. I had never seen one in person before I went to the Toledo Zoo, but after seeing them up close I then understood why they were so popular for coin designs...
Up here in the great Pacific northwest we have this: http://www.hancockwildlife.org/index.php?topic=cam-sites Book mark this and come back in the early spring when the parents are raising their young. It's fun to watch the young ones get real big, real fast. And I do mean real big, real fast. Jon Oh, to keep on topic, my beer has eagles on the can!
The native range of the bald eagle includes all of the lower 48 states, most of Alaska and Canada and part of Mexico. Fish are one of their primary foods so they live near or on lakes and rivers and the coast. That is why we have them year round even way down here in the sunny south, that and some conservation programs that brought them back. I think the question should be how many regular issue coins did NOT have eagles, and how many commemoratives DO have them. IHP and wheats, large cents, nickles and dimes are without eagles-- and did that law about eagles on coins $.25 or greater get repealed for the state quarters and new dollars?
