The bald eagle is a bird of prey-that is, a flesh-eating bird. Its Latin name-Haleaeetus leucocephalus-means 'white-headed sea eagle.' It is called 'bald' because the word was used in times past to mean white or white faced.
1 There are still occasional unconfirmed local reports of Spixâs macaw sightings in Serra da Capivara National Park. 2  Spixâs macaw is relatively long-lived, estimates suggest it could reach 20 to 30 years of age in the wild.
Patrick Macnee has died at the age of 93. Here Dick Fiddy pays tribute to the TV series that made his name. It seems incredible that The Avengers is more than 50 years old, and more incredible still that it shows little sign of fading away as most of its contemporaries have done.