Bird Watching: Bald Eagle - Our National Symbol - Vol. #5, 0 by linthicum

linthicum wrote:
Thank you all ......

“Give an eagle a fish; you have fed him for a day. Teach an eagle to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”. Those words sound familiar ? Some eagles never learn, just like humans !!!

Margaret, Ben Franklin was way off base. He preferred the Turkey to the Bald Eagle because of the eagle's "bad moral character". He didn't acknowledge that the Bald Eagle mates for life whereas the wild turkey is a very promiscuous specie. I just can't envision the Wild Turkey on our coins and currency or at the top of a flag pole, representing our country. Ben Franklin had one too many jolts of electricity ..........(lol).