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Though a longstanding symbol of "independence, strength and freedom," according to Congress, the bird of prey never received a formal designation Shyla Watson is a digital news editor at PEOPLE.

telling his daughter at the time that bald eagles were "a bird of bad moral character." The powerful bird of prey was eventually added to the Great Seal but did not become America's official bird ...

an insecticide consumed by many of the birds’ prey, which ended up killing much of the bald eagle population. By the 1960s, there were approximately 400 breeding pairs left in the continental U ...

1 and No. 2 spots in the U.S. for the highest numbers of nesting bald eagles. Florida ranks third in the nation, according to Audubon Center for Birds of Prey. The Audubon EagleWatch Program ...

The small bird, with its brown and orangey plumage and weighing just a pound and a half, has caught a few mice but is still honing his hunting skills, having been born in captivity only a few ...

Both are still protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Predatory birds like eagles and hawks were especially sensitive to pesticides like DDT in the 1960s. They consumed the chemicals in their ...