Bald eagles were taken off the endangered species list in 2007, although they still have federal protections. Due to conservation efforts and a ban of the toxic chemical DDT, Weckstein said, eagles, ...

THE BALD EAGLE The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird By Jack E. Davis. Having written about elephants in Burma during World War II, I get a particular thrill when readers tell me they picked ...

The bald eagle had never been declared the national bird — until Preston Cook, an avid collector of all things eagle-themed, unearthed the truth and fought to correct the oversight.

Why did the Founding Fathers decide to use the bald eagle in the Great Seal of the U.S.? Eva Diaz, associate professor of art history at Pratt University, explains the cultural and allegorical ...

The popular bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow were featured Monday night on the CBS TV show "NCIS." Less than three minutes into the show, two NCIS agents with cell phones are watching the Big ...

The Bald Eagle Knap-In features displays of tools and demonstrations of the methods used to make them. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski “Most of them were found in cornfields,” he said.

A bald eagle carries prey as it flies. The birds have perfected the art of stealing fish from other birds like ospreys, chasing them down until they drop their catch.

The bald eagles are twitterpated and RiverQuest, a birder-focused cruise, is weighing anchor. The two-decade-old cruise run by the Connecticut River Museum — which documents New England’s ...