Bald Eagle

Cayuga is a male bald eagle that came to us in 2021 from Cornell university wildlife health clinic in Ithaca New York. He has been under human care since 2015 due to a gunshot wound that resulted in the partial amputation of his left wing. In 2021 was when the bald eagle exhibit construction was completed. Bald eagles don’t get their white head and tail until they are around 5 years old, so immature bald eagles are all brown. They can weigh anywhere from 6-14lbs with females being larger than males and their wing span can be up to 8ft! they are opportunistic hunters will eat something that’s already dead before trying to hunt mainly eat fish, small mammals, birds and dead carcass such as deer. Cayuga eats around 300 grams daily of fish/rabbit/chicken.