Ask Mr. Answer Person: "Do the Decorah bald eagles have names?"

Linda e-mails us: "Do the eagles have names? My mother is St. Louis loves to watch the eagles each day and wondered what we called them."

Bob Anderson from Raptor Resource replies: "When we were recording footage from the nest for the Nature documentary the associate producer would call the male the "O.C. male," as he would almost always put any stick the female brought to the nest in a spot where he thought it should go as soon as she left the nest. The female would often drop bits of food when she ate so sometimes she was called "Ms. Piggy." However, the adult male has no unique marks on his stark white head and without research bands, no one can say for certain it is the same bird from year to year. The female's marks are fading with each new molt and maybe in a few years she too will have a stark white head. It can be difficult to not be anthropomorphic."

Thanks, Bob!