Photograph of a juvenile American bald eagle flying against a gray overcast sky with thin out of focus branches in the background in the lower frame. The eagle is facing right in profile and has its right wing raised either in a down stroke or maintaining a glide. Bald eagles have brown body feathers, white head and tail feathers, clear, light yellow-green eyes with large pupils, yellow-orange beaks that curve downward to a point, yellow-orange legs, and yellow-orange feet that end in sharp black talons. This is a juvenile bald eagle. It takes 4-5 years for an eagle to acquire its adult feathers. During that transition time the eagle's feathers begin brown and then become mottled brown and white prior to the adult stage with a white head and tail as well as a brown body.