Editing Bald eagle (section)

==Range==
[[File:Bald-Eagle-9114-cropped.jpg|thumb|right|Bald eagle in flight at Yellowstone National Park, [[Wyoming]]]]
The bald eagle's natural range covers most of North America, including most of Canada, all of the [[continental United States]], and northern Mexico. It is the only [[sea eagle]] [[endemism|endemic]] to North America. Occupying varied habitats from the [[bayou]]s of [[Louisiana]] to the [[Sonoran Desert]] and the eastern deciduous forests of [[Quebec]] and [[New England]], northern birds are [[bird migration|migratory]], while southern birds are resident, remaining on their breeding territory all year. At minimum population, in the 1950s, it was largely restricted to [[Alaska]], the [[Aleutian Islands]], northern and eastern Canada, and Florida.<ref name="Bull87"/> From 1966 to 2015 bald eagle numbers increased substantially throughout its winter and breeding ranges,<ref>{{cite web |title=BBS Trend Maps – Bald eagle ''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'' |url=https://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/tr2015/trend2015_v3.html |publisher=Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |access-date=December 7, 2018}}</ref> and as of 2018 the species nests in every continental state and province in the United States and Canada.<ref name="Bio"/>

The majority of bald eagles in Canada are found along the [[British Columbia]] coast while large populations are found in the forests of [[Alberta]], Saskatchewan, [[Manitoba]] and [[Ontario]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/animal-facts-bald-eagle |title=Animal Facts: Bald Eagle |date=August 14, 2006 |access-date=October 22, 2018}}</ref> Bald eagles also congregate in certain locations in winter. From November until February, one to two thousand birds winter in [[Squamish, British Columbia]], about halfway between [[Vancouver]] and [[Whistler, British Columbia|Whistler]]. In March 2024, bald eagles were found nesting in [[Toronto]] for the first time.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cecco |first=Leyland |date=March 10, 2024 |title=Bald eagles seen nesting in Toronto for first time in city's recorded history |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/10/bald-eagles-nesting-toronto-first-time-history |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The birds primarily gather along the [[Squamish River|Squamish]] and [[Cheakamus River|Cheakamus]] Rivers, attracted by the [[salmon]] spawning in the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle1.html |title=Bald Eagle Viewing Directory |access-date=August 20, 2007 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111205752/https://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle1.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Similar congregations of wintering bald eagles at open lakes and rivers, wherein fish are readily available for hunting or scavenging, are observed in the northern United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=Making their comeback |url=http://www.oswegocountynewsnow.com/news/making-their-comeback/article_c46c89fe-e316-11e6-8e83-072c9210971d.html |publisher=oswegocountynewsnow.com |date=January 22, 2017 |access-date=December 7, 2018}}</ref>

It has occurred as a [[vagrancy (biology)|vagrant]] twice in Ireland; a juvenile was shot illegally in [[County Fermanagh]] on January 11, 1973 (misidentified at first as a [[white-tailed eagle]]), and an exhausted juvenile was captured near [[Castleisland]], [[County Kerry]] on November 15, 1987.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/fd7744016cc242f2c23ec570762c136a |title=Bald Eagle Lands Exhausted in Ireland |work=Associated Press News |date=December 15, 1987}}</ref> There is also a record of it from Llyn Coron, [[Anglesey]], in the United Kingdom, from October 17, 1978;<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00901.x |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00901.x |title=British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee: 37th Report (October 2008) |journal=Ibis |date=2009 |volume=151 |pages=224–230}}</ref> the provenance of this individual eagle has remained in dispute.