MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • April 5, 2020
Q. Why do bald eagles have white heads? A. Eagle have no natural predators and don’t need to worry about the lack of camouflage that a white head or tail presents. So, it probably has to do with the choice a female eagle made about a million years ago, an ancestor species of what would become the bald eagle, when she chose a male eagle with some white on its head. ~ Doug Hitchcox, Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist