It’s official! Congress finally worked together to designate the Bald Eagle our national bird. How reassuring that our public servants roosting in Washington have chosen to honor an esteemed ...

One of the most prominent opponents to the selection of the bald eagle to represent the U.S. was Benjamin Franklin. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, in a letter to a friend ...

(KNSI) – The bald eagle is now officially America’s national bird, thanks to a Minnesota lawmaker. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote the legislation signed into law on Christmas Eve by ...

President Biden last week signed a unanimously approved bill that officially names the bald eagle America’s national bird. Few have paused to reflect on the deeper meaning of this iconic creature.

The bald eagle received a title this week that many may have assumed it already had: the national bird of the United States. For centuries, the bald eagle has been a ubiquitous symbol for the ...

Recently, the bald eagle officially became the national bird of the U.S. More than 50 years ago, pesticide use had decimated bald eagle populations. Researchers recorded the lowest number of nesting ...

Around 2010, while doing research for a book about the birds, Cook realized he could not find "anything whatsoever that the bald eagle had ever been legislatively designated as our national bird nor ...