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| Title: "Alaska Aurora Eagle Flight " © Alaska Artist Dianne Roberson Bald Eagle | Northern Lights | Alaska Stock # DA 109 Medium: Digital Art | Color Print Size: 20" w by 16" h $ 175.00 Color Print on Glossy Paper Size: 20" wide by 16" High $275.00 Color Print on stretched canvas Size: 14" w by 11" h $ 85.00 Color Print on Glossy Paper Description The bald eagle is the largest bird of prey found in Alaska. It is named for its conspicuous white head and tail. The distinctive white adult plumage is not attained until five or more years of age. Bald eagles are only partially migratory. If they possess access to open water, they will remain at that nesting site year-round, while those that do not have access to water leave that area in the winter and migrate south or to the coast. Found only in North America, bald eagles are more abundant in Alaska than anywhere else in the United States. Nest building begins in April, and both the male and female gather nest material. In late April, two or three eggs are laid several days apart. Incubation lasts around 35 days. When the young hatch, sibling rivalry is common and the weaker, usually younger chick, does not survive. Surviving young leave the nest after approximately 75 days. They attain adult plumage and breed at four to five years of age. With statehood in 1959, the bald eagle in Alaska received federal protection under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940. This act made it illegal to kill or possess an eagle, alive or dead, or to posses any part of an eagle, including the feathers. Bald eagles were endangered or eliminated throughout most of the Lower 48 states as a result of habitat destruction, illegal shooting, pesticides and poisoning. Northern Lights Also know as the Aurora Borealis, these lights are best viewed in the cold dark winter months in Alaska. The beautiful blaze of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, begins when energetic electrically charged particles accelerate along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with gas atoms, causing the atoms to give off light. The air lights up rather like what happens in a fluorescent light tube. The colors reflect gases, the most usual yellow-green color coming from oxygen. Red coloring is also due to oxygen with a contribution from nitrogen and violet is due to nitrogen. The charged particles originate from the sun, and it is the “weather” conditions on the sun that decide whether or not we will see the aurora. Print Information The website address will not be printed on your print. This print is treated with an ultra violent protective coating. It will be rolled and inserted into a mailing tube. This print is treated with an ultra violent protective coating. It will be rolled and inserted into a mailing tube if ordering a glossy paper print. Stretched canvas prints will be boxed. All prints will be mailed first class by the U.S. Postal Service and insured. |
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