Hungry Birds

Photograph by Klaus Nigge, National Geographic

The bald eagle is an opportunist, says photographer Klaus Nigge, whose images of bald eagles in Alaska s Aleutian Islands appear in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic. He s a scavenger. Even if food is stinky and old, he ll take it. Here, eagles still await a free meal near the home of a woman who used to feed them roadkill and fish scraps.

Hear photographer Klaus Nigge speak about photographing bald eagles on Proof .