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PHOTOGRAPH BY NORBERT ROSING, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
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Good news: Since 2009, the bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled. The July 2002 issue of National Geographic featured Norbert Rosing’s image of this bald eagle—and it was recently featured in our Photo of the Day archival collection. In images over the following dozen years, photographer Klaus Nigge developed a deep respect for the wild, tough bald eagles of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. “They were dirty, they were wet, and they fought with each other, which is not what we expect from our national symbols,” he wrote. Yet, he concluded wistfully: “They can fly, and I cannot.”
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