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Birds of Yellowstone Many images here, please scroll down.
1. The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Taken in a snowstorm.
Another eagle on a nice sunny day.
Below: another eagle, leaving an elk carcass and flying over to a snag (downed tree).
Above (5) and below (6): a golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) on an elk thought to have been killed by a mountain lion. White specks are snow flakes. The smaller black and white birds at the left are black-billed magpies (Pica hudsonia), better seen part way down on the coyote page.
Below (7): Trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator). Trumpeters are the largest swans in North America, with a wingspan approaching 8 feet.
Above (8): a Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus). Below (9): a Pine Grosbeak (Pinacola enucleator).
Above (10): a Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri).
Above (11): a Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) overlooking the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
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