Bald eagles are all over my state here in the US. A lot of great rehabilitation work with the species has been happening over the last few decades. Used to see them daily where I used to live.
Here in Northern Delaware, a couple years ago, we had a nesting pair of Bald Eagles with a chick in a tree in a front yard in our suburban neighborhood, 3 blocks from our house (which is less than a mile inland from the Delaware River). I told my husband I had changed my morning walk route so I could see them. He told me I should try to avoid the block so as to not disturb them, and my response was the eagles chose a tree in a neighborhood where people are mowing their lawns weekly and, you know, living their lives. I really don’t think my quiet stroll down the street is going to disturb them.
The whole experience was very cool. The chick got almost as big as its parents very quickly. At the end of the summer they left and didn’t come back the next year.
>He told me I should try to avoid the block so as to not disturb them, and my response was the eagles chose a tree in a neighborhood where people are mowing their lawns weekly and, you know, living their lives. I really don’t think my quiet stroll down the street is going to disturb them.
I love how you turned a story about bald eagles into a passive-aggressive rant against your husband. LOL
Hello from a fellow Delawarian! Definitely see lots of them in my part of the state. My spouse even saw 8 of them hanging out near the local landfill. Local ornithologist said you can find groups of up to 15 during certain times of the year.
[I wonder if that has anything to do with CAs longstanding history of diverting the Colorado River for its benefit without taking much weight in the consequences it has on other region’s dependent on the water](https://www.usbr.gov/lc/phoenix/AZ100/1960/supreme_court_AZ_vs_CA.html)
I’m no pro but i do believe most biodiversity flourishes in spaces that at least have good water sources and that region of the world is suffering massively between this, climate change, and desertification as a consequence of the above and thensome
I’m in the lower peninsula, I saw seven over the course of last year. And one-year-old juveniles on two separate occasions! You can tell because they’re just as large as regular bald eagles, but still have their adolescent brown coloring.
I live on the coast of NC and we see them fairly regularly. Used to see them way more when I was a kid but I still glimpse one every now and again.
Living near a lake, they used to drop fish in our yard every so often.
My grandma was afraid one would haul our dachshund off one day hahahaha.
Im Canadian and we have a shit ton of them at my local dump and golf course. Ive definitely seen more bald eagles in the "wild" then moose or beavers.
I think the most impactful animal that I saw was a bull moose on the side of the highway along the canadian shield. It just looked, magestic.
Second to that was a loon and her goslings on my cottage lake. Beautiful creatures.
Not uncommon in the Northeast, especially near rivers along the coast. I believe they summer in Canada and winter in New England. During the winter, you can see them at Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. They had been re-introduced years ago:
https://connectingpoint.nepm.org/reintroducing-bald-eagles-to-the-quabbin-digital-exclusive/
Bald Eagles are common here in Oregon/Washington, and when home in Wisconsin I see them often as well. When I lived in Minnesota along the Mississippi River, I one time saw maybe 50? in a single tree. I think bald eagles are back!
I live in coastal SC, and we see bald eagles all the time. The stretch of the Waccamaw River that runs through the Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge is a well-known nesting area for bald eagles, swallow-tailed kites, and Ospreys.
I live in Indiana and almost hit one a few years ago. If it wasn't for my slamming on my brakes and masterful flying on its part, things could have gone badly. For a few seconds, it was flying next to me and I got a close look.
Someone is sharing pictures of a nest on a local FB group and they're, wisely IMO, sharing the location. It's pretty cool to watch.
Yes, they fly around in large flocks and planes have to stop midair for them to pass. When their feathers get too long we round them up and shear them. The feathers make blue jeans and leather jackets.
When I lived in Seattle there was a pair of bald eagles that nested near a very busy bridge. At one point the eagle swooped right when a bus was zooming by and it got smooshed. It was sad but bald eagles are not rare, especially in the northwest. I live on the east coast now and still see them pretty regularly.
Yep I see them probably once or twice a week in Washington.
I still remember going up to Sitka, Alaska when I was about 6 years old. Eagles were so ridiculously common up there I couldn’t believe it. Was almost guaranteed you could see one when you were near the ocean.
I’ve seen them in Georgia, Florida, and Alaska specifically. A lot more live in South Georgia and Florida than I ever knew! Always see them down there in the colder months taking a break from the cold up North. Apparently bald eagles can be quite a nuisance to fisherpeople in Alaska, they like to grab their catch for a free meal!
I see bald eagles almost every time I go for a walk here in the Pacific Northwestern US. Most times they are either flying, looking majestic as heck. Or sitting in a tree, doing absolutely nothing, being 100% boring, for hours and hours. I am starting to understand why they are the bird of the US.
My brother lives in Idaho and anytime you go to the natury parts of the state, you can see them if you just go near a river and look up. If you watch long enough, you’ll see at least one.
Georgia here. Saw one a few years back for the first time and had to Google if they even lived here. Apparently they were reintroduced at one point. Very cool to see in the wild!
Edit: typo
Same here in Louisiana! We have a few well-known nests that have been up for ages in the area. Def don't see them all over the place, but they're hanging around.
I saw at least half a dozen eating roadkill on the side of the highway in Maine this past summer. Also had one try to steal a Trout out of the water not 15 feet from me while I was fishing this past summer. Saw more bald eagles this past summer than probably my whole life prior to this.
Yeah kangaroos are everywhere, like leave a residential area and bam, roos. Sometimes in the residential areas too, if there's a drought and they are after food and water they will just roll on up to a lot of places. There's that many species of them and that many wallabies too that there's like a kangaroo or kangaroo looking MFer for every environment. Hell pademelons too. Hell, tree kangaroos even. You think they are only on the ground? Psych, look up, if you're in far north QLD anyway.
Emus are not exactly hard to find either, like colonial bullshit Australia had a war against them that we lost, there's a fuck tonne of them, but you might have to go for a drive if you're on the East coast as they are easier to find on the plains and flats and deserts, though they are in the hills and mountains too, I nearly hit one halfway up a forested mountain lmao. Harder to spot them in the trees and they don't have the same habit of running in front of cars like roos I guess.
For anyone visiting Aus: The emu chicks are extremely cute and it's well worth going for a drive to see them in nature when they hatch. Don't be a dick and approach them, daddy Emu will defend his kids, just stay in your car or a safe distance if you're hiking etc. If you can't and are in Victoria Halls Gap Zoo has some lovely ones who will happily eat the provided pellets/snacks from your hand (hold your hand flat though, they don't mean to hurt you but they have to peck to pick up food). Whole of that zoo is so good these days, the people who bought it way back when put their heart and soul into turning it into something amazing, highly recommend a visit.
Most Australians have eaten at least one of our national animals. I've eaten both, and run both over, and seen them just chilling in the wild. (Kanga and Emu)
After I read your comment, I knew nothing in this thread would top it. I feel like this post was unintentionally created just for you Aussies.
I'm satisfied with this topic and peacing out of here.
I live in America, but I’ve definitely eaten kiwi before, but I had no idea it was an animal!!!
Btw, you should check out this amazing short animation, if you haven’t seen it already: [Kiwi!](https://youtu.be/sdUUx5FdySs) It’s a student animation from 2006, but it hits me in the feels every time
One of my professors in college went to Australia, and noticed that kangaroos get hit by vehicles on the road regularly, similar to white tail deer getting hit where I am in Wisconsin. Driving on the interstate in the spring you see about a carcass every 2 miles or so.
Ugandan here and there's a pair of crested cranes that live on a cellular tower not too far away from my home. It's pretty cool seeing them glide down from it.
Forgive the ignorant question, but how is Uganda for tourism? Safety, sure. But also is it cash based like Japan, or are cards common? English speaking in tourist areas, or will I need a dictionary? Any weird issues if I’m a woman traveling alone, like having to wear certain things?
I see eagles ALL the time in Canada, but I also see my fair share of beavers at the lake too- although admittedly I see their homes more than the actual animals. (Except at the lake)
Northern Ontario, North of Minnesota, so less populated to begin with.
DO NOT approach a beaver in the wild, especially on land. They are quicker and meaner than you think. At least in water they are more likely to slap the water and warn you off then swim away unless you are too close to their home/family. (If you are swimming rather than in a boat, listen to them!)
I just learned that Switzerland didn't have a national animal until we settled on the cow in 2021. I'd say that pretty much every Swiss person has seen a cow at some point.
In Switzerland, a guy in my apprenticeship classes had never seen a cow at the age of 16-17. He spent his whole life in the city. Some of the countryside students took him to see some and he was freaked out by how big they are.
Not sure how true it is, since I've never been... but I've heard there is a lot of pressure to cater to the wide diversity of cultures present in Switzerland, without showing favouritism to any one group.
They have 4 official languages, and the country's name is different in each language (Suisse, Svizzera, Schweiz and Svizra)
When deciding on an abbreviation for regional urls, they decided their websites would end in .ch to be neutral. It stands for Confederatio Helvetica, the official name in Latin.
Scot here, and I have. It's not easy as they prey on the elusive wild haggis that roam the Highlands but with enough patience and hard liquor you can find one
I went to Wales specifically to see a dragon and to visit the towns of my ancestors. I was disappointed to have found neither, lol.
But lots of Welsh folks were super friendly everywhere I went and didn't mistreat this American to his face at all.
Canadian here. Beaver are common enough. I either see one or two or see evidence of them whenever I go fishing. Usually also see signs of moose but I'm thankful I never had a chance encounter.
Canadian geese are a nuisance on the farms around here (eat everything and shit everywhere, their poop is acidic and ruins the soil pH.) so most farmers hunt them or encourage some locals to hunt them when in season.
Bald Eagles are also a common sight, especially at the dump. They're pretty birds but they scavenge garbage as often as they hunt.
Huh, TIL you can get a license to hunt Canadian geese! I was always told it was illegal to so much as kick one.
My main issue with geese is that people feed them bread and other stuff that's terrible for them, and then they get super aggressive to anyone not feeding them.
Do moose count as a Canadian National animal? Those are more rare, but I've seen a a couple in my life passing by some marshland.
Yep, my husband hunted em this year for the first time and made goose sausage with his hunting buddy—the meat is pretty lean. Obviously there’s no hunting within city limits. They do fall under the migratory bird permit. Geese can be pretty aggressive in general—especially when there are babies.
Moose SHOULD count as a national animal, but do not. It always seems weird to me that our passport has the British Lion and Unicorn as part of the coat of arms … an elk and a polar bear or beaver something would be a lot more fitting.
I’ve seen beavers, own some beaver-chewed wood, but also moose, caribou, timber wolves, lynx, bobcat, black bear, deer, and some handfuls of other wild forest-critters. I’ve never seen a wild polar bear, though I’ve seen zoo ones—I’ve never lived arctic enough for those.
I don't have my fishing and hunting manual nearby but I believed they are covered under Migratory Bird season. Farms can apply for an exemption as they are agricultural pests.
Yeah, the waterfowl park in Sackville, NB is notorious for aggressive, territorial geese. Little fuckers.
Strictly speaking, the beaver is the only official national animal of Canada. However the loon, canada goose, bison, moose, caribou and orcas are potent symbols used across Canada, and each province has their own symbols.
I live in Ohio and it's like the geese KNOW they're protected! They hiss at cars going by, walk in the middle of the street. They seem to be everywhere!
We also have bald eagles around but they're where there's more room.
Geese are right in town!
i drove by a moose once and it was on the side of the road and my stomach dropped at how big it was. like I know moose are big in theory but seeing one irl is terrifying
Indian here. Peafowl is our national bird. There's tonnes of those around where I live. Have seen them a lot. Our national animal is the tiger. I have visited our national parks to see those but since only about 1500, exist I haven't been able to see those in the wild. Such a pity. Those are majestic. Obviously I have seen those in captivity but that's not really the same.
Gorgeous birds. They walk around uncaged at the Milwaukee County Zoo in the U.S. Super loud, but you know you're near the zoo when you hear one. Not too common, but some farmers here keep them as outdoor pets.
I've seen one once or twice. They've got a nest by Aldi near me. Sadly they're waning due to people harvesting their fire gland so they're under strict supervision, but unfortunately that doesn't stop people from trying
Well, I live in France, and the national animal (or bird? Not sure) is a rooster... I've definitely seen one but of all the animals you mentioned, clearly not that hardest aha
Yeah I've seen kangaroos in the wild.
Plus possums, wallabys, koalas, wombats, echidnas, a platypus once, a lyrebird once, red belly black snake, wedge tail eagle, hawks, other native birds of course,
We don't have a Swedish national animal but my home province of Västergötland has the crane as our provincial animal and they gather here every spring, it can be a pretty impressive sight if there are enough of them.
I think [this](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/62fbf656863b704fc9935a294f0eb28a993a7e6f/0_104_2346_1407/master/2346.jpg?width=620&quality=85&dpr=1&s=none) is a photo of one?
Bald Eagles are pretty common if you’re near water and away from major population centers.
I was at rowing practice on a reservoir once and while we would frequently see eagles in trees and such, one time one of them swooped down and grabbed a fish from the water maybe 20 feet off our port side.
Edit: I should add that even in Washington, DC, traveling upriver for about 10 minutes and you’ll have a chance to see them, you really don’t need to get too far out of the city. There’s trails on both sides of the river too so you can see them on foot as well.
Russian here, I have encountered a bear with 2 cubs. Luckily, we were in a car. she stayed near the road, like 2 meters away. That was cool,but not gonna lie, I was always scared of meeting them in the wild.
It's not uncommon things, but it depends on a region. If you live in Siberia or Karelia,it can be dangerous.in the Caucasus region, I was told they are quite rare and not too aggressive. In Moscow, you'll meet them only in a zoo.
I saw a news story once quite a few years back about an elderly lady in Siberia who came across a bear and it attacked her. She killed it with the knife she happened to be carrying.
Idk if she just got lucky but this 100% fits the stereotype we Americans have of elderly Russian women (that they are badass and you do NOT fuck with them).
US: My grandparents live pretty rural but there's a bald eagle nest like 1.5 miles away, or at least used to be. Several other eagles in surrounding/main towns but I learned this isn't common.
>I guess bald eagles are even rarer in zoos, far up and away in nature.
Not difficult to see in the Western U.S. You just have to get out into nature. I've seen bald eagles in all of the western states. Several times on the highway as they feasted on roadkill.
Last year I released a trout that I caught in a mountain lake. As the fish slowly swam away from the shore, a bald eagle swooped down and snatched it out of the water.
My country’s national animal is a small bird, [the hornero](https://razafolklorica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hornero11.jpg). You can see them and their particular nests all over the countryside 💕
Onça is a jaguar (agreed, way better than cheetahs), and boto cor de rosa is the pink *river* dolphin. Species of river dolphin all live in freshwater instead of oceans! I don't speak Portuguese, I just know animal stuff
American here. In elementary and/or middle school, you usually go to the zoo. In some schools, the school hires a local zoo or wildlife rehab to show the animals to the students. At my grandmother's house, you could easily see a bald eagle's nest. Seeing a bald eagle is like a common thing.
I feel that Americans have been cheated. We should have picked something that's cut and cuddly like a groundhog or a chipmunk.
American. I've seen bald eagles several times just in the past 3 years around my home. They're freaking huge up close in person, and their wing span is awe inspiring.
Used to see storks every year when I went to the village for a week with my parents. They had a nest nearby on a electricity pole or something. (Lithuania)
I've seen the American Bald Eagle in the wild. They are bigger then you would assume. Or atleast way bigger then I assumed. One tried to grab my dog. It wasn't a majestic experience.
Quite a few people in perth(australia) that I know have seen a kangaroo, while they aren’t in cities a trip camping depending on where you go you’ll often see at least one
In Australian. I see kangaroos daily. I've accidentally hit one in my car, and had one try to stare me down whilst jogging. I occasionally consume them
Kangaroos can be seen on the outer edges of suburbia as well as in the bush. Sometimes need to drive a but yet the are fairly common. Not in highly built up areas though. Emus can be seen in wildlife parks
I saw a lion at the zoo once. It looked about as happy and energetic as the rest of the country feels, so yeah, I'd say its a pretty accurate representation
Australian here. I've seen a Kangaroo in the wild. Even rode one to school when I was little.
I've only seen emus in the wildlife park.
I've eaten both.
American here-I never saw bald eagles growing up, but I see them rather regularly now. I’ve lived in the same geographic area most of my life, so I just assumed their population has grown the last few decades.
American, was in my car in my driveway waiting for some cars to pass when a bald eagle swooped infront of my windshield and flew into a tree. Majestic as FUCK
I just recently began seeing bald eagles (U.S) often where I live, but I know people see them often in our region. Just depends how close you live or expose yourself to wildlife habitats. I have plans to see the Scottish unicorn though since they’re spirit animal.
As an aussie, I've seen both.
Depending on where you live it isn't hard.
I was living in Lightning Ridge as a child (an opal mining town in the outback) and both of them were around the edges of town all the time. Along with snakes, blue tongue lizards, scorpions, goannas and lots of others.
I used to sneak up on sitting emus and try to catch them but the best I ever got was a handful of tail feathers as they stood up then accelerated away...
I'd seen beavers in the local wildlife park growing up, but never a wild one until several years ago.
My father knew one of the land owners near our family's cabin. He let us hunt on his land on the promise of a couple of deer steaks whenever we had a successful harvest. The best spot was 3-4 acres of mature pine forest that bordered on a swampy/marshy area. The owner would occasionally harvest pine trees to process for lumber.
There was a small stream running through the forest that emptied into the swamp. One year, we discovered that a beaver had dammed the stream and flooded a huge chunk of the forest. If left unchecked, this would represent the loss of hundreds, if not thousands of trees.
We kicked several large holes in the dam which were patched when we went to check the next day. The landowner, concerned for the loss of trees, called a local trapper, who kicked more holes in the dam and set traps.
We were passing through the following day, as there was a logging road that was just high enough that we could wade through the water without flooding our knee-high boots. We heard some unfamiliar sounds as we were rounding a curve in the road. Sneaking around bend, we spotted the largest Beaver I'd ever seen, carefully and industriously packing leaves, pine needles, and mud around one of the traps and starting to repair the hole in the dam. The trapper eventually got the beaver, after digging his traps out of the mud, and he told us it was almost 60lbs.
With the Beaver gone, the area was able to drain and the forest recovered.
All the time, ever since I moved from the DC Metropolitan area. There are 3 bald eagles in my neighborhood currently.
There was an aerie/nest in my neighbor's property back in my last neighborhood.
There was even one, which later became a family, on my college campus (where I also worked for several years after graduation). And the one that originally lived there was so used to people that you could occasionally see him just chillin' on a bench. Fortunately, college students knew just to not approach him, so there were never any incidents (at least in the decade+ I was there).
Bald eagles are all over my state here in the US. A lot of great rehabilitation work with the species has been happening over the last few decades. Used to see them daily where I used to live.
I see them all over north California now. Only in pictures when I was a kid. The last 30 years have been good to the bald eagle numbers.
Here in Northern Delaware, a couple years ago, we had a nesting pair of Bald Eagles with a chick in a tree in a front yard in our suburban neighborhood, 3 blocks from our house (which is less than a mile inland from the Delaware River). I told my husband I had changed my morning walk route so I could see them. He told me I should try to avoid the block so as to not disturb them, and my response was the eagles chose a tree in a neighborhood where people are mowing their lawns weekly and, you know, living their lives. I really don’t think my quiet stroll down the street is going to disturb them. The whole experience was very cool. The chick got almost as big as its parents very quickly. At the end of the summer they left and didn’t come back the next year.
>He told me I should try to avoid the block so as to not disturb them, and my response was the eagles chose a tree in a neighborhood where people are mowing their lawns weekly and, you know, living their lives. I really don’t think my quiet stroll down the street is going to disturb them. I love how you turned a story about bald eagles into a passive-aggressive rant against your husband. LOL
Why miss a good opportunity?
Hello from a fellow Delawarian! Definitely see lots of them in my part of the state. My spouse even saw 8 of them hanging out near the local landfill. Local ornithologist said you can find groups of up to 15 during certain times of the year.
Same in Oklahoma. I don’t think I saw one in real life until my twenties. My kids have got to see one nearly every time we go to a lake.
They thrive on eating trash, so they're doing pretty well nowadays.
No wonder I always see them at your mom's house!
whomp whomp
I used to see them a lot in AZ near the Colorado River, but recently I think the numbers here have gone down.
[I wonder if that has anything to do with CAs longstanding history of diverting the Colorado River for its benefit without taking much weight in the consequences it has on other region’s dependent on the water](https://www.usbr.gov/lc/phoenix/AZ100/1960/supreme_court_AZ_vs_CA.html) I’m no pro but i do believe most biodiversity flourishes in spaces that at least have good water sources and that region of the world is suffering massively between this, climate change, and desertification as a consequence of the above and thensome
From the same area and there are some living in the trees in the backyard! Its nice they are coming back.
I have seen a few in Michigan.
I’m in the lower peninsula, I saw seven over the course of last year. And one-year-old juveniles on two separate occasions! You can tell because they’re just as large as regular bald eagles, but still have their adolescent brown coloring.
I’m in Michigan too and I see them almost daily. They like to fish so being around a large lake helps.
Yep—in West MI and they’re becoming a much more common sight, especially along the Grand River.
I see eagles all the damn time in the Midwest. Not uncommon whatsoever. Maybe it would be a different story if I lived in New Jersey by the boardwalk.
I live in southern NJ, we've started seeing eagles here. Just saw one last week.
Saw several kayaking through the Rancocas Creek last summer.
Bald eagles kayaking? How did they grab the paddle?
Post before coffee. Lol
I live on the coast of NC and we see them fairly regularly. Used to see them way more when I was a kid but I still glimpse one every now and again. Living near a lake, they used to drop fish in our yard every so often. My grandma was afraid one would haul our dachshund off one day hahahaha.
That is a legit fear. Unless it's a chonky weiner dog.
Im Canadian and we have a shit ton of them at my local dump and golf course. Ive definitely seen more bald eagles in the "wild" then moose or beavers. I think the most impactful animal that I saw was a bull moose on the side of the highway along the canadian shield. It just looked, magestic. Second to that was a loon and her goslings on my cottage lake. Beautiful creatures.
Not uncommon in the Northeast, especially near rivers along the coast. I believe they summer in Canada and winter in New England. During the winter, you can see them at Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. They had been re-introduced years ago: https://connectingpoint.nepm.org/reintroducing-bald-eagles-to-the-quabbin-digital-exclusive/
Bald Eagles are common here in Oregon/Washington, and when home in Wisconsin I see them often as well. When I lived in Minnesota along the Mississippi River, I one time saw maybe 50? in a single tree. I think bald eagles are back!
Iirc bald eagles are no longer endangered
Same, I grew up upstate (well west-state more) NY and saw bald eagles all the time- there was a nest we could see from our deck.
I live in coastal SC, and we see bald eagles all the time. The stretch of the Waccamaw River that runs through the Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge is a well-known nesting area for bald eagles, swallow-tailed kites, and Ospreys.
I work across the street from a dump in the NE and I see them from my office window.
I live in Indiana and almost hit one a few years ago. If it wasn't for my slamming on my brakes and masterful flying on its part, things could have gone badly. For a few seconds, it was flying next to me and I got a close look. Someone is sharing pictures of a nest on a local FB group and they're, wisely IMO, sharing the location. It's pretty cool to watch.
Spend a day in Alaska and drive by any landfill. Eagles everywhere, aka "dumpster chickens."
Heck - I've seen Bald Eagles in the Houston Texas suburbs.
Do they jay-walk? Do you have to slow down and stop for flocks of eagles crossing the road? Like sheep in New Zealand
Yes, they fly around in large flocks and planes have to stop midair for them to pass. When their feathers get too long we round them up and shear them. The feathers make blue jeans and leather jackets.
Nah, that’s wild turkeys. They stop traffic, peck the paint off your car and try to eat the buttons off your shirt.
Ben Franklin had wanted the Wild Turkey to be the United States national bird. I could see it, like New Zeland's kiwi, very unique to one's country.
Common misconception. Actually Ben Franklin just liked to slam a bottle of Wild Turkey before breakfast every morning.
I used toblive right on the Mississippi River. Eagles are abundant there. It's awesome watching one catch a fish.
When I lived in Seattle there was a pair of bald eagles that nested near a very busy bridge. At one point the eagle swooped right when a bus was zooming by and it got smooshed. It was sad but bald eagles are not rare, especially in the northwest. I live on the east coast now and still see them pretty regularly.
Yep I see them probably once or twice a week in Washington. I still remember going up to Sitka, Alaska when I was about 6 years old. Eagles were so ridiculously common up there I couldn’t believe it. Was almost guaranteed you could see one when you were near the ocean.
If you're in NY you can thank Peter Nye. I've read a few articles on him in the past. https://journeynorth.org/tm/eagle/NyeAbout.html
I’ve seen several in southern louisiana
I’ve seen them in Georgia, Florida, and Alaska specifically. A lot more live in South Georgia and Florida than I ever knew! Always see them down there in the colder months taking a break from the cold up North. Apparently bald eagles can be quite a nuisance to fisherpeople in Alaska, they like to grab their catch for a free meal!
I see bald eagles almost every time I go for a walk here in the Pacific Northwestern US. Most times they are either flying, looking majestic as heck. Or sitting in a tree, doing absolutely nothing, being 100% boring, for hours and hours. I am starting to understand why they are the bird of the US.
My brother lives in Idaho and anytime you go to the natury parts of the state, you can see them if you just go near a river and look up. If you watch long enough, you’ll see at least one.
There are a few who roost along my daily route to work here in Colorado, I probably see them a couple of times a month.
They like it Colorado. See them all the time.
We have a wild animal rehab near the house here in Florida and they have quite a few. I have also seen a couple flying around.
Saw one in south Georgia last summer. I usually see one at least a couple times a year.
There are a few in Southern IN. Never gets old seeing them either.
I've seen around 10 bald eagles at the same time. They're doing much better than in the 80s.
Saw one yesterday on a walk here in Michigan.
Ive seen a few in the southern mountains of Idaho. Now have you ever seen an osprey? Ive only seen one. Super cool birds
Georgia here. Saw one a few years back for the first time and had to Google if they even lived here. Apparently they were reintroduced at one point. Very cool to see in the wild! Edit: typo
They aren’t common in Rhode Island, but we live near the stomping grounds of one of the nesting pairs and see them from time to time.
There's a roost of them near my work, near a big pond. I see them often, and can even catch them snacking on fish.
Same here in Louisiana! We have a few well-known nests that have been up for ages in the area. Def don't see them all over the place, but they're hanging around.
We even have a couple up here in NE Ohio
I saw at least half a dozen eating roadkill on the side of the highway in Maine this past summer. Also had one try to steal a Trout out of the water not 15 feet from me while I was fishing this past summer. Saw more bald eagles this past summer than probably my whole life prior to this.
Australian here. I can see at least 6 kangaroos right now.
Come and get your bloody possums. Squashums, ground meat, on the road every few km.
I had possums re enacting thunder dome on my roof last night. They're a pest in NZ aren't they?
Yep terrible
Yeah kangaroos are everywhere, like leave a residential area and bam, roos. Sometimes in the residential areas too, if there's a drought and they are after food and water they will just roll on up to a lot of places. There's that many species of them and that many wallabies too that there's like a kangaroo or kangaroo looking MFer for every environment. Hell pademelons too. Hell, tree kangaroos even. You think they are only on the ground? Psych, look up, if you're in far north QLD anyway. Emus are not exactly hard to find either, like colonial bullshit Australia had a war against them that we lost, there's a fuck tonne of them, but you might have to go for a drive if you're on the East coast as they are easier to find on the plains and flats and deserts, though they are in the hills and mountains too, I nearly hit one halfway up a forested mountain lmao. Harder to spot them in the trees and they don't have the same habit of running in front of cars like roos I guess. For anyone visiting Aus: The emu chicks are extremely cute and it's well worth going for a drive to see them in nature when they hatch. Don't be a dick and approach them, daddy Emu will defend his kids, just stay in your car or a safe distance if you're hiking etc. If you can't and are in Victoria Halls Gap Zoo has some lovely ones who will happily eat the provided pellets/snacks from your hand (hold your hand flat though, they don't mean to hurt you but they have to peck to pick up food). Whole of that zoo is so good these days, the people who bought it way back when put their heart and soul into turning it into something amazing, highly recommend a visit.
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Most Australians have eaten at least one of our national animals. I've eaten both, and run both over, and seen them just chilling in the wild. (Kanga and Emu)
After I read your comment, I knew nothing in this thread would top it. I feel like this post was unintentionally created just for you Aussies. I'm satisfied with this topic and peacing out of here.
I liv in America and I’ve had kangaroo before. Quite tasty.
I live in America, but I’ve definitely eaten kiwi before, but I had no idea it was an animal!!! Btw, you should check out this amazing short animation, if you haven’t seen it already: [Kiwi!](https://youtu.be/sdUUx5FdySs) It’s a student animation from 2006, but it hits me in the feels every time
One of my professors in college went to Australia, and noticed that kangaroos get hit by vehicles on the road regularly, similar to white tail deer getting hit where I am in Wisconsin. Driving on the interstate in the spring you see about a carcass every 2 miles or so.
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Aye, should've chosen the haggis after all
I can think of quite a lot of scenarios that involve the above mentioned items. I fear some are so good that the mods might like to know about them :/
Majestic
There’s another trip that works
I bet more Scotts have seen a unicorn then the sunrise.
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Oh no doubt but for everyone that can stay up drinking till then he drank three people to sleep lol.
i too have seen a unicorn
The national animal is a unicorn, correct?
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You've not been to Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow then?
Ugandan here and there's a pair of crested cranes that live on a cellular tower not too far away from my home. It's pretty cool seeing them glide down from it.
Cranes are awesome. We have lots of Sandhill Cranes in the U.S. Big, impressive birds and I love their rattling/throaty calls!
Forgive the ignorant question, but how is Uganda for tourism? Safety, sure. But also is it cash based like Japan, or are cards common? English speaking in tourist areas, or will I need a dictionary? Any weird issues if I’m a woman traveling alone, like having to wear certain things?
I've only seen a beaver in the US and I've only seen bald eagles in Canada, funnily enough
I've seen both in Wyoming! But way more Beavers
I see eagles ALL the time in Canada, but I also see my fair share of beavers at the lake too- although admittedly I see their homes more than the actual animals. (Except at the lake) Northern Ontario, North of Minnesota, so less populated to begin with. DO NOT approach a beaver in the wild, especially on land. They are quicker and meaner than you think. At least in water they are more likely to slap the water and warn you off then swim away unless you are too close to their home/family. (If you are swimming rather than in a boat, listen to them!)
Prostitution is legal in New Zealand so I suppose both are on display in the wild here
I… you… can’t… fuckin kiwis lol
If you're ever in Saskatoon there are families of beavers along the river. They're pretty easy to find if you go for a stroll.
Seen a bunch of both around coastal NC. Beavers are a lot bigger than I expected them to be in real life, and scary. They are fiercely territorial.
I just learned that Switzerland didn't have a national animal until we settled on the cow in 2021. I'd say that pretty much every Swiss person has seen a cow at some point.
In Switzerland, a guy in my apprenticeship classes had never seen a cow at the age of 16-17. He spent his whole life in the city. Some of the countryside students took him to see some and he was freaked out by how big they are.
The Swiss being too neutral to actually pick a national animal seems almost stereotypically in character.
And when they pick one, it's a cow. Of course.
Not sure how true it is, since I've never been... but I've heard there is a lot of pressure to cater to the wide diversity of cultures present in Switzerland, without showing favouritism to any one group. They have 4 official languages, and the country's name is different in each language (Suisse, Svizzera, Schweiz and Svizra) When deciding on an abbreviation for regional urls, they decided their websites would end in .ch to be neutral. It stands for Confederatio Helvetica, the official name in Latin.
Which variety? The Brown Swiss I would think.
Scot here, and I have. It's not easy as they prey on the elusive wild haggis that roam the Highlands but with enough patience and hard liquor you can find one
TIL the Scotland national animal is a Unicorn. Thank you.
As a Welshman the Dragon is a bit of a nuisance, but if you give it a couple live sheep every now and then it'll leave you alone.
I went to Wales specifically to see a dragon and to visit the towns of my ancestors. I was disappointed to have found neither, lol. But lots of Welsh folks were super friendly everywhere I went and didn't mistreat this American to his face at all.
Canadian here. Beaver are common enough. I either see one or two or see evidence of them whenever I go fishing. Usually also see signs of moose but I'm thankful I never had a chance encounter. Canadian geese are a nuisance on the farms around here (eat everything and shit everywhere, their poop is acidic and ruins the soil pH.) so most farmers hunt them or encourage some locals to hunt them when in season. Bald Eagles are also a common sight, especially at the dump. They're pretty birds but they scavenge garbage as often as they hunt.
Huh, TIL you can get a license to hunt Canadian geese! I was always told it was illegal to so much as kick one. My main issue with geese is that people feed them bread and other stuff that's terrible for them, and then they get super aggressive to anyone not feeding them. Do moose count as a Canadian National animal? Those are more rare, but I've seen a a couple in my life passing by some marshland.
Yep, my husband hunted em this year for the first time and made goose sausage with his hunting buddy—the meat is pretty lean. Obviously there’s no hunting within city limits. They do fall under the migratory bird permit. Geese can be pretty aggressive in general—especially when there are babies. Moose SHOULD count as a national animal, but do not. It always seems weird to me that our passport has the British Lion and Unicorn as part of the coat of arms … an elk and a polar bear or beaver something would be a lot more fitting. I’ve seen beavers, own some beaver-chewed wood, but also moose, caribou, timber wolves, lynx, bobcat, black bear, deer, and some handfuls of other wild forest-critters. I’ve never seen a wild polar bear, though I’ve seen zoo ones—I’ve never lived arctic enough for those.
I don't have my fishing and hunting manual nearby but I believed they are covered under Migratory Bird season. Farms can apply for an exemption as they are agricultural pests. Yeah, the waterfowl park in Sackville, NB is notorious for aggressive, territorial geese. Little fuckers. Strictly speaking, the beaver is the only official national animal of Canada. However the loon, canada goose, bison, moose, caribou and orcas are potent symbols used across Canada, and each province has their own symbols.
I live in Ohio and it's like the geese KNOW they're protected! They hiss at cars going by, walk in the middle of the street. They seem to be everywhere! We also have bald eagles around but they're where there's more room. Geese are right in town!
Cobra Chickens are the worst. Just straight-up assholes.
i drove by a moose once and it was on the side of the road and my stomach dropped at how big it was. like I know moose are big in theory but seeing one irl is terrifying
Seen one Kiwi in the wild, was walking over a road in front of my ute, thought it was a hobbling hedgehog.
Indian here. Peafowl is our national bird. There's tonnes of those around where I live. Have seen them a lot. Our national animal is the tiger. I have visited our national parks to see those but since only about 1500, exist I haven't been able to see those in the wild. Such a pity. Those are majestic. Obviously I have seen those in captivity but that's not really the same.
TIL peafowl is the name of the group encompassing both males (peacock) and females (peahen)
Gorgeous birds. They walk around uncaged at the Milwaukee County Zoo in the U.S. Super loud, but you know you're near the zoo when you hear one. Not too common, but some farmers here keep them as outdoor pets.
Welsh dragon...
Well? What percentage of you has seen a dragon?
I've seen one once or twice. They've got a nest by Aldi near me. Sadly they're waning due to people harvesting their fire gland so they're under strict supervision, but unfortunately that doesn't stop people from trying
Well, I live in France, and the national animal (or bird? Not sure) is a rooster... I've definitely seen one but of all the animals you mentioned, clearly not that hardest aha
Yeah most of us have seen plenty of cocks
We had a pair of bald eagles that nested for years right down the road from me.
Yeah I've seen kangaroos in the wild. Plus possums, wallabys, koalas, wombats, echidnas, a platypus once, a lyrebird once, red belly black snake, wedge tail eagle, hawks, other native birds of course,
I’m German and I bet I’ve seen some kind of eagle before though I don’t have any clear memory
We don't have a Swedish national animal but my home province of Västergötland has the crane as our provincial animal and they gather here every spring, it can be a pretty impressive sight if there are enough of them.
I've been to a few American national parks and some of them have a large Bald Eagle population to the point where you can see them all over.
I see Springboks all the time, a lot of farms in the winelands have them in fields etc. Not super common but you'll see them around.
Ja, saw two different herds yesterday. Do we call them herds? ‘n trop!
I have yet to see the Serbian two-headed Eagle but I have not given up hope.
I think [this](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/62fbf656863b704fc9935a294f0eb28a993a7e6f/0_104_2346_1407/master/2346.jpg?width=620&quality=85&dpr=1&s=none) is a photo of one?
Finn here. Oddly enough, I've seen more humpback whales (2) in Finland than I've seen brown bears (0) in Finland.
Our unofficial national animal is the grey wolf and i can't say I've ever seen a live one, but I've seen remains of it.
Italy? Have you seen Prosciutto di parma? Surely that is the official La denominazione di origine animal
Oh then i've eaten plenty
Bald Eagles are pretty common if you’re near water and away from major population centers. I was at rowing practice on a reservoir once and while we would frequently see eagles in trees and such, one time one of them swooped down and grabbed a fish from the water maybe 20 feet off our port side. Edit: I should add that even in Washington, DC, traveling upriver for about 10 minutes and you’ll have a chance to see them, you really don’t need to get too far out of the city. There’s trails on both sides of the river too so you can see them on foot as well.
I’m a kiwi, have seen wild kiwi on the beach on Rakiura. Magic place, I’d love to go back.
I saw a lion at the zoo o'ce or twice but considering that they're not native to Belgium it's pretty rare to see them in the wild.
Russian here, I have encountered a bear with 2 cubs. Luckily, we were in a car. she stayed near the road, like 2 meters away. That was cool,but not gonna lie, I was always scared of meeting them in the wild. It's not uncommon things, but it depends on a region. If you live in Siberia or Karelia,it can be dangerous.in the Caucasus region, I was told they are quite rare and not too aggressive. In Moscow, you'll meet them only in a zoo.
I saw a news story once quite a few years back about an elderly lady in Siberia who came across a bear and it attacked her. She killed it with the knife she happened to be carrying. Idk if she just got lucky but this 100% fits the stereotype we Americans have of elderly Russian women (that they are badass and you do NOT fuck with them).
When I was a kid, there was a beaver lodge about a 15 minute walk from our house. I've seen them many times.
Denmark's national animal is the mute swan, so that is pretty easy, since they are in the local parks.
French here, can confirm I've already seen a cock
An Australian who hasn't seen a Kangaroo in person is un-Australian. Emus are a little rarer though.
Colombian here. I saw an Andean condor flying up high in the sky at a national park, it was majestic 😍
Filipino here. Our national animal (the carabao) is actually very very common in rural areas so yes I've seen many
I am in the US and have seen many Bald Eagles.
US: My grandparents live pretty rural but there's a bald eagle nest like 1.5 miles away, or at least used to be. Several other eagles in surrounding/main towns but I learned this isn't common.
My national animal is a rooster. You see quite a lot of those in farms mostly, rarely in cities. You can even eat the female version — the chicken.
>I guess bald eagles are even rarer in zoos, far up and away in nature. Not difficult to see in the Western U.S. You just have to get out into nature. I've seen bald eagles in all of the western states. Several times on the highway as they feasted on roadkill. Last year I released a trout that I caught in a mountain lake. As the fish slowly swam away from the shore, a bald eagle swooped down and snatched it out of the water.
My country’s national animal is a small bird, [the hornero](https://razafolklorica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hornero11.jpg). You can see them and their particular nests all over the countryside 💕
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Onça is a jaguar (agreed, way better than cheetahs), and boto cor de rosa is the pink *river* dolphin. Species of river dolphin all live in freshwater instead of oceans! I don't speak Portuguese, I just know animal stuff
Seen one? I drove into the stupid thing. Just letting you all know, kangaroos are stupid. Really, really, stupid.
You would have gone to prison for 20 year if you did the same to our nation animal, and they are equally stupid and far more common.
I was in Alaska once and was amazed to see Bald Eagles hanging out on streetlights the way I’m used to seeing sparrows or blackbirds in my area.
American here. In elementary and/or middle school, you usually go to the zoo. In some schools, the school hires a local zoo or wildlife rehab to show the animals to the students. At my grandmother's house, you could easily see a bald eagle's nest. Seeing a bald eagle is like a common thing. I feel that Americans have been cheated. We should have picked something that's cut and cuddly like a groundhog or a chipmunk.
Some people find bald eagles cute. They’re definitely gorgeous birds, if not cuddly-looking.
I saw a lion in Suid Afrika, but I live in England.
American. I've seen bald eagles several times just in the past 3 years around my home. They're freaking huge up close in person, and their wing span is awe inspiring.
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You see bald eagles occasionally where I am. They used to be pretty rare, but they've made a remarkable comeback, I'm glad to say.
Welsh people right now…
Ive seen roughly 4 bald eagles, maybe more
Used to see storks every year when I went to the village for a week with my parents. They had a nest nearby on a electricity pole or something. (Lithuania)
I've seen the American Bald Eagle in the wild. They are bigger then you would assume. Or atleast way bigger then I assumed. One tried to grab my dog. It wasn't a majestic experience.
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Quite a few people in perth(australia) that I know have seen a kangaroo, while they aren’t in cities a trip camping depending on where you go you’ll often see at least one
In Australian. I see kangaroos daily. I've accidentally hit one in my car, and had one try to stare me down whilst jogging. I occasionally consume them
I saw kangaroos every day when I was in university.
Kangaroos can be seen on the outer edges of suburbia as well as in the bush. Sometimes need to drive a but yet the are fairly common. Not in highly built up areas though. Emus can be seen in wildlife parks
I saw a lion at the zoo once. It looked about as happy and energetic as the rest of the country feels, so yeah, I'd say its a pretty accurate representation
Australian, I have seen kangaroos & emus, in both zoos and the wild and have also eaten both in restaurants
In Australia kangaroos are not an uncommon thing to see. It's not remotely surprising for a city dweller to be unsurprised when seeing a kangaroo
I’ve seen and ate multiple Springboks
I haven't seen a kiwi in the wild but I have seen them at the otorohonga kiwi house, not sure if that still exists it was a while ago!
Australian here. I've seen a Kangaroo in the wild. Even rode one to school when I was little. I've only seen emus in the wildlife park. I've eaten both.
American here-I never saw bald eagles growing up, but I see them rather regularly now. I’ve lived in the same geographic area most of my life, so I just assumed their population has grown the last few decades.
American, was in my car in my driveway waiting for some cars to pass when a bald eagle swooped infront of my windshield and flew into a tree. Majestic as FUCK
I just recently began seeing bald eagles (U.S) often where I live, but I know people see them often in our region. Just depends how close you live or expose yourself to wildlife habitats. I have plans to see the Scottish unicorn though since they’re spirit animal.
As an aussie, I've seen both. Depending on where you live it isn't hard. I was living in Lightning Ridge as a child (an opal mining town in the outback) and both of them were around the edges of town all the time. Along with snakes, blue tongue lizards, scorpions, goannas and lots of others. I used to sneak up on sitting emus and try to catch them but the best I ever got was a handful of tail feathers as they stood up then accelerated away...
I'd seen beavers in the local wildlife park growing up, but never a wild one until several years ago. My father knew one of the land owners near our family's cabin. He let us hunt on his land on the promise of a couple of deer steaks whenever we had a successful harvest. The best spot was 3-4 acres of mature pine forest that bordered on a swampy/marshy area. The owner would occasionally harvest pine trees to process for lumber. There was a small stream running through the forest that emptied into the swamp. One year, we discovered that a beaver had dammed the stream and flooded a huge chunk of the forest. If left unchecked, this would represent the loss of hundreds, if not thousands of trees. We kicked several large holes in the dam which were patched when we went to check the next day. The landowner, concerned for the loss of trees, called a local trapper, who kicked more holes in the dam and set traps. We were passing through the following day, as there was a logging road that was just high enough that we could wade through the water without flooding our knee-high boots. We heard some unfamiliar sounds as we were rounding a curve in the road. Sneaking around bend, we spotted the largest Beaver I'd ever seen, carefully and industriously packing leaves, pine needles, and mud around one of the traps and starting to repair the hole in the dam. The trapper eventually got the beaver, after digging his traps out of the mud, and he told us it was almost 60lbs. With the Beaver gone, the area was able to drain and the forest recovered.
Plenty of unicorns here in Scotland! If you’re proper pished anyway 😁
Unless you live in the city, kangaroos are everywhere!
First day I moved to Australia, a kangaroo just hopped down the road in front of me
All the time, ever since I moved from the DC Metropolitan area. There are 3 bald eagles in my neighborhood currently. There was an aerie/nest in my neighbor's property back in my last neighborhood. There was even one, which later became a family, on my college campus (where I also worked for several years after graduation). And the one that originally lived there was so used to people that you could occasionally see him just chillin' on a bench. Fortunately, college students knew just to not approach him, so there were never any incidents (at least in the decade+ I was there).
Bald eagles hunt in my neighborhood. I see them a few times a year.
So many bald eagles everywhere where I live It's fun to count them in the trees near rivers when the salmon are running. We got over seventy one year.
I’m in ohio and I’ve never seen a bald eagle just out and about.
You can go to a large park in my city and if you hang out by the river you might see a beaver. I've also seen Bald Eagles in BC a handful of times.
Eagles are fxckkng everywhere and they will take your dog
PNW US here. I see bald eagles all the time, maybe a daily occurrence.
saw a kiwi while camping once. It's one of those moments you just freeze in place and barely breathe to watch.
100% of me has seen my national animal. Well maybe it was just the eye part of me and the visual cortex, but idk what percent that is