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

In the same month that President Joe Biden signed a law officially recognizing the bald eagle as America’s national bird, one of the mighty raptors was found shot dead in Lawrence County.

In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the Great Seal of the United States and Americans just assumed it was our national bird − wrongly it turned out. While the U.S. had a national mammal (bison) and ...

WEST ORANGE, N.J. — (AP) — 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 ...