When America's Founding Fathers affixed a bald eagle to the great seal of the United States in 1782, they likely had no idea they were highlighting what would become one of the greatest wildlife ...
The bald eagle has been a symbol of our nation’s strength since the Revolutionary War, but it was not made our national bird until recently. The bald eagle is emblematic of America and on coins, bills ...
It wasn’t until the 1960s that the bald eagle was on the brink of extinction and placed on the federal endangered species ...
The word bald refers to an old English word meaning white, like that ... hawk and the golden eagle are the only American raptors to have legs feathered all the way to the toes.