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.
Mostly found in the Russian Far East and northern Japan, the Steller’s sea eagle is listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with fewer than 5,000 left in the wild ...
The bald eagle, an historic symbol of the nation for more than 200 years, made a soaring comeback from near extinction, and now, finally, has been officially named America's national bird.
The bald eagle, a symbol of the power and the strength of the United States for more than 240 years officially became the country’s national bird on Christmas Eve. It once avoided Chicago like ...