Knowing this, The female bald eagle is 35 to 37 inchesThe male bald eagle has a body length from 30 to 34 inch
Bald eagles weigh from ten to fourteen pounds. So how am I suppose to find out the wingspan from this information? Please someone explain how to do this in algebric form.
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- Without more information, you can't. Birds of similar sizes can have quite different wingspans. For instance, a 34" waved albatross has a 90 inch wingspan, while a goose the same length (but greater weight) has only about a 56 inch wingspan. A bald eagle the same size is about half way in between (~77 inches). (and the males range down to 6.6 pounds, btw) Albatrosses are gliders with medium wing loading; geese have heavy wing loading. You could make some assumptions about wing loading (which can vary by a factor of 10) and calculate a wing area, but that won't tell you wingspan unless you know the aspect ratio. Eagles have broad wings rather than long wings (low aspect ratio); albatrosses are the opposite with long narrow wings (high aspect ration).
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