Date: 10/28/26 8:27 am From: Lynn Sprott <0000cb09de78248d-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: an interesting looking juvenile Golden Eagle
I love this picture, Nick! As someone who is still a very inexpert birder, I would love it if someone could explain how you can tell a juvenile golden from a juvenile bald eagle? I'm pretty sure if I had seen this I would have just assumed it was a juvenile bald eagle. I really wish I had seen it--I was at Bald Eagle Monday but didn't see any eagles or the American bittern, sadly.
Lynn Sprott
Professor of Psychology
Jefferson Community College
Watertown, NY
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Subject: an interesting looking juvenile Golden Eagle
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I took this picture on Monday at Bald Eagle Mt of a Golden Eagle that I judged to be a juvenile. I find the pattern of white to be interesting in that a few adjacent feathers had white, the white did not appear to be symmetric in the two wings, and there were small body feathers that were white.
Typically, the white in the wings are in a number of adjacent feathers and symmetric in the two wings.
