Seventeen years after the Fish and Wildlife Service removed the bald eagle from the endangered species list, signaling the comeback of an iconic species, a new enemy is stalking our national bird.

we rightfully recognize the bald eagle as our official national bird—bestowing an honor that is long overdue.” Bald eagles are native to North America. Bird watchers can spot them in most ...

The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft since the early 2000s. Culturally, too, the animals are soaring.

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...

An amazing photo (see page A8) of a bald eagle at the ocean’s edge was taken north of Ocean Shores by Dr. Tom Rowley, a ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Last January on Unalaska Island, Suzi Golodoff poured herself a hot cup of coffee, pulled on her boots, and stepped ...

He is “a bird of bad moral character” who ... Maybe Ben could have guessed that, in time, America’s choice of national emblem would doom her to become an empire. Rome, Austria-Hungary ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Bald eagles, aka Haliaeetus leucocephalus, seem to be models of decorum. The raptors mate for life, unless one partner ...

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 ...