bald eagle

Named after the white markings on its head and tail.

bald eagle (plural bald eagles)

1. Haliaeetus leucocephalus, a species of eagle native to North America and notable for the white plumage on its head.
2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) This bird as a national symbol of the United States.
   • 2020, Erik Edstrom, Un-American:

     Bald Eagle America, the version I was raised to believe in, the one I had risked it all for, didn't feel like America anymore. It felt like “’Murrica”, its loutish, inbred, belligerent cousin[.]

   • 2022, Jason O'Neil, chapter 10, in Tough Sale:

     Our competition is helpless with worsening conditions around this once-proud land of the Bald Eagle.

   • 2023, Jason Oneil, “Think Note 2”, in One Sane One:

     [T]he very country America tried to “contain” in Asia had been responsible for the unabetted march toward communism in the land of the Bald Eagle.

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