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Jack E. Davis

Jack E. Davis is the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida and the author of The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird.

Bald eagles are intensely social in spite of also being fierce predators. Some 500 live near the remote fishing port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

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