10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know as an American

The classic “Bald Eagle screech”

Actually, the classic “Bald Eagle screech” is a red-tailed hawk. So, you lived a lie, because bald eagles have a much less intense screech and that “piercing, loud cry” is totally another bird. “Unfortunately for the bald eagle, it has like a little cackling type of a laugh that’s not really very impressive for the bird,” says the bird expert Connie Stanger.