Bettmann via Getty Images For more than 200 years, the bald eagle has been featured on the country’s Great Seal, which shows the bird carrying an olive branch and arrows in its talons.

which is “carrying a flag-emblazoned shield holding an olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other.” “For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t ...

The bald eagle, an historic symbol of the ... the bird is easily recognizable. The eagle, grasping an olive branch and arrows in its talons on the Great Seal, appears on official U.S. documents ...

The bald eagle is now officially ... Getty Images Most Americans are familiar with the seal's eagle carrying a flag-emblazoned shield holding an olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other ...

The seal is made up of the eagle, an olive branch, arrows, a flag-like shield, the motto “E Pluribus Unum” and a constellation of stars. Congress, that same year, designated the bald eagle as ...