# 916 - Canadian Wildlife - Part 21

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We will continue the series called "Canadian Wildlife".

The Royal Canadian Mint is known by its high quality work and the enormous number of commemorative coins issued each year. Among these commemoratives we find many, individual or in series, under the theme "wildlife".

Canada, with its vast lands and seas, is the home of a varied fauna and that will be showed in this series.

I will try to post land animals, sea animals and birds, in that order.

The twenty-first is a 2017 CAD $5 "Bald Eagle".

It weights 31.1g with silver purity of 99.99% and Reverse Proof finish. The mintage was 100,000 units.

This is the second of four coins in the reverse proof finished "Birds of Prey" series, the Bald Eagle.

A true apex predator with no natural enemies as an adult, the majestic bald eagle has long been the embodiment of power, wisdom and calmness. The bald eagle is not actually bald on its head, but rather has white feathers and was named after an older meaning of bald which more closely resembled "white-headed".
The adult has a wingspan over 2 metres, weighs about 7 kilograms and has a standing height of about 1 metre. The females are noticeably larger than the males, up to about 25% and both are imposing predators that dominate their habitats. Bald Eagles make one of the largest nests of any bird, sometimes as much as 4 metres deep and 2.5 metres across and they can weigh up to a ton.
Young bald eagles are different in plumage than mature adults and typically have light brown feathers around their head, rather than white.
These rugged and majestic predators have been used as symbols by many cultures, from ancient American civilizations to the United States for whom it is their national symbol.

The reverse, designed by Emily Damstra, shows a Bald Eagle carrying a fish in its talons.

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Yesh... the bald eagle! There are lots of them in Canada!

But I think that number one is the USA.

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Beautiful birds @ronavel, we have nesting Bald Eagles where I live. It's a sight to see, when you look out the window and see one of these birds!!!

I can't even imagine the size of a nest with a few eaglets inside...

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They are huge @ronavel, it's just amazing that we have them near !!!

I should have gotten a proof version because all my BU versions have milk spots all over them. Much better without the spots and would had cost me a little less if I settled for spotty maple leafs. Thanks for sharing @ronavel

RCM promised that from 2018 on there will be no more milk spots and I think that they are keeping their words.

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