What's Minnesota's largest raptor? Hint: it might not be the bald eagle

• Look at the armpits-or, technically, the “wingpits. • That’s what Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., told a group of bird watchers recently as they prepared to scan the winter skies for a majestic raptor that’s especially tricky to identify: the golden eagle.

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• Look at the armpits-or, technically, the “wingpits. That’s what Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., told a group of bird watchers recently as they prepared to scan the winter skies for a majestic raptor that’s especially tricky to identify: the golden eagle.

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• https://phys.org/news/2026-02-minnesota-largest-raptor-hint-bald.html