Members of the Prairie Island Indian Community is welcoming the United States new national bird with a sense of pride, and ...

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

After nearly 250 years, the bald eagle has been officially declared the national bird of the United States through bipartisan legislation signed by former President Joe Biden. This corrects a ...

The bipartisan effort spells out the bird’s important role in US History. “People look at bald eagles as Americans, and a lot of times, they’re not even so much seeing the natural bird, as ...

Ed Hahn, the communications director at the National Eagle Center, hopes the bird's legacy holds lessons for the management of other species, whether they are nationally recognized or not ...

On Monday, the House of Representatives passed a bill amending the U.S. Code to officially designate the bald eagle (aka Haliaeetus leucocephalus) as the country's national bird. The Senate ...

After learning the U.S. doesn't officially recognize the bald eagle as its national bird, a Minnesota man swooped in. This week the House passed his bill, which now heads to Biden's desk.

After decades of political unrest, former poachers and community members rallied to protect the Bengal florican.

Despite centuries on the national seal and widespread assumption, the bald eagle has never officially been designated as the national bird. John Yang reports on the effort to change that and why ...

But it wasn't officially America's national bird until this week. On Christmas Eve, President Biden signed some 50 bills into law — including one that amends the U.S. Code to give the bald eagle ...