“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...

In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the Great Seal of the United States and Americans just assumed it was our national bird − wrongly it turned out. While the U.S. had a national mammal (bison) and ...

The bald eagle, once teetering on the brink of extinction, has made a significant comeback in the United States. Long a ...

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment. The eagles find themselves in a sort of environmental updraft ...

The bald eagle officially became the symbol of the U.S. after centuries of being recognized as one. The bald eagle’s flight ...

Everything in nature runs in cycles, in a series of cycles to be more correct. From spring we move to summer, then to fall ...

Bald eagle at National Conservation Training Center. The bald eagle almost did not survive to become our national symbol. Overhunting nearly wiped out the bald eagle in the early decades of the ...

WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky ...

The bald eagle became the United States national bird on Dec. 24, 2024, approximately 242 years after most Americans assumed it already was our national bird. In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on ...