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Hannah Schardt | Last Updated: January 8, 2016

Bald eagle in flight, photographed by Jim McCollum — A bald eagle slows to land in a nearly leafless tree by Maryland's Conowingo Dam. Photographed by Jim McCollum of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Published: November 23, 2010

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