Photograph of a juvenile American bald eagle flying against a blue sky with a patch of out of focus branches in the lower right frame. The view is from below. The eagle's wings are spread wide, and the tip of its right wing reaches the upper left corner of the frame while the tip of its left wing reaches out and to its left. The eagle's under-tail, under-wing, legs, feet, belly, chest, neck, and head are visible. Adult 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.