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

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 ...

America’s national bird, the bald eagle, is having a moment. The eagles find themselves in a sort of environmental updraft since the early 2000’s when the federal government took the thriving birds ...

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 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 ...