The First Bird

Today, I was looking through National Geographic magazines when I saw an article that had intrigued me. It's titled First Bird. This article talks about the bald eagles. The author, Klaus Nigge, said in the article, "Photographers tend to portray the birds as these majestic animals, always soaring in a blue sky with their plumage perfectly in place." This shows that photographers tend to try and convince a theme of perfection.

But later in the article, the author says, "In the Aleutian Islands in Alaska I found bald eagles that were wilder and tougher than that. They were dirty, they were wet, and they fought with each other, which is not what we expect from our national symbols." This shows that if you would watch carefully, bald eagles are actually quite the opposite and aren't "perfection".

After reading this article I realized why the title is First Bird. Bald eagles are the "first bird" because they are the birds that get dirty and fight with each other. They go through more than what birds you see outside today probably do. I was interested in this article because it showed how people can convince totally different meanings just by pictures.

Below are two pictures included in the article that show a wet and dirty bald eagle and then also two bald eagles fighting each other.

 

Link for article: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/bald-eagles/nigge-text