When naturalist Franklin Klock visited students at Towamensing Elementary School in Towamensing Township, he brought lots of facts about eagles and Rennie, a bald eagle that lives at the Carbon County Environmental Education Center.

Rennie had been hit by a car when she was still a juvenile bird and suffered brain damage.She is blind in one eye and has damaged feathers, so she is unable to fly and unable to live in the wild.Here are some of the facts about eagles that Klock shared with the children.• It takes five to six years for a bald eagle to become an adult.• Young bald eagles do not have a white head and tail. Their feathers are dark.• Adult golden eagles have a white tail, but the head is dark feathers. They do have white feathers on the underside of the wings. There are no golden eagles in Pennsylvania.• Bald eagles sound more like seagulls, not the fierce sound often used in movies. That sound is the red-tailed hawk.• They have a bony ridge above their eyes that make them look mean. It actually shields the eyes from the sun, like a baseball cap. This makes it easier for them to see prey on the ground.• Eagles can see better than hawks. Their eyes are almost as large as that of humans.• Bald eagles will eat live and dead prey. Their talons can exert a crushing force of 1,000 pounds per square inch.• Eagles pant like a dog when they are hot.• If they lose a feather on one wing or on one side of the tail, then they drop a feather on the other wing or other side of the tail. It's called bilateral molting and is common in most birds.• The nest of a bald eagle is usually smaller, but can be as large as 20 feet in diameter, 15 feet deep and weigh as much as 4,000 pounds.• The nests are built by the male eagle. A male and female pair will return to the same nest each year and add materials to it.• Bald eagles mate for life.- Kristine Porter