A fter centuries as a revered symbol of America, the bald eagle has finally been officially recognized as the national bird of the United States. The announcement comes as the Endangered Species ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bald eagle has been a symbol of our nation’s strength since the Revolutionary War, but it was not made our national bird ...

After long being an unofficial symbol, the white head, yellow beak bald eagle became the official U.S. bird on Christmas Eve. President Biden signed 50 bills into law Tuesday. Among them was Senate ...

The eagles' perch as symbols of the country contributes to their conservation, with experts considering them an “umbrella species,” whose need for large open spaces and waterways helps ...

Hokkaido--Bird watchers here might have thought they had been magically transported across the Pacific when they spotted the national symbol of the United States here in a wetland. A bald eagle ...