Are you patriotic? Well, if you didn't know, America's symbol, the Bald Eagle, habitats in Temperate Deciduous Forests (TDF). Well, here's a fun fact for you, it's not really bald. It got it's name from an old English word which means white. Bald used to mean white. The Bald Eagle is a consumer and predator. It really just eats and cares for its eaglets with huge nests. They really eat fish, but also eat small mammals such as snakes and rats. Having razor sharp talons, they grab their prey and kill them, to eat them. They live mostly near lakes and rivers since they eat mostly fish. In the biome, their role is to do what they do, which is eating fish and mammals, making huge nests for their young, defending their young and sometimes, being too late to save their young. That is how to biome will keep its balance in organisms and habitat. They are the top of the food chian, meaning they are the predators and not one organism is over them. They keep the community running by dying of natural causes and getting decomposed by decomposers and eaten by scavengers. They've adapted to the TDFs and its changing of climate and temperature by having ways to heat and cool themselves and still protecting their young with huge nests. They don't sweat, but release heat by perching in shade, spreading their wings out and panting. In the cold, well, they don't really get cold. Their feet are cold resistent. Their beak is mostly non'living material and their feathers are lined down to protect the skin. Their young are protected with huge nests which protect them mostly from other predators and climate. The Bald Eagle makes big nests to keep their eaglets alive. HOw do you think the Bald Eagles first were, before they adapted to the Temperate Deciduous Forests?
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