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

The word bald refers to an old English word meaning white, like that of a judge’s wig in the English legal system. Nearly every Native American tribe has its own name for eagle. Bald eagles ...

D espite the fact that bald eagles are both the national symbol and the national bird of the United States, they're much less ...

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 ...

A bald eagle named Freedom perches on a branch ... The birds are revered in a number of Native American cultures as symbols of strength, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, according to Paul ...

The birds have been in an environmental updraft since the early 2000s, when the U.S. government took them off its endangered ...