Article: If you go. . . The big bird has rebounded along the Mississippi, astonishing admirers with its robust beauty and power and profusion

KEOKUK - This is Alaska south, where no eagle eyes are needed to see eagles. In the first moments of pulling into a parking lot at Victory Park, a juvenile eagle rose from the Mississippi River with a fish in its talons, cut through the blowing snow, and zoomed straight toward me to perch on a tree to begin eating lunch.

I have seen eagles on rooftops in Alaska, paddled beneath them in New Hampshire, Maine, and Oregon, and had them soar overhead while I cycled in Minnesota. I have watched them fly low over alligators in the Everglades and high over our drinking water in the Quabbin Reservoir. But never had I experienced an eagle come directly toward me and plop down on a branch only about ...

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