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white and brown eagle in close up photography

Alaska’s Bald Eagles Soar in Numbers

Suhail Ahmed

There are few sights as arresting as a bald eagle rising over a green fjord, wings catching a ribbon of sunlight, and lately Alaska has been offering that spectacle more often. After a century of swings – hunted, poisoned, protected – this emblematic raptor is steadily thriving across the state’s rugged coasts and river valleys. ...