On Monday, the House of Representatives passed a bill amending the U.S. Code to officially designate the bald eagle (aka Haliaeetus leucocephalus) as the country's national bird. The Senate ...

The recent official designation of the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) marks the culmination of a decades-long effort to formalize the bird's status, which has been an American symbol since ...

An American symbol . The assumptions: Bald eagles areperched on our government seals, our military uniforms, and even our money. So most of us thought the eagle was the national bird. "My ...

President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill Tuesday that designated the bald eagle as the national bird. ... 100,000 nesting bald eagles in the U.S. when it was first adopted as the American ...

After learning the U.S. doesn't officially recognize the bald eagle as its national bird, a Minnesota man swooped in. This week the House passed his bill, which now heads to Biden's desk.

Backyard bird count The Cornell Lab Great Backyard Bird Count will be held Friday – Feb. 17. It takes as little as 15 minutes and will help create a real-time snapshot of bird populations.

JOHN YANG: Around 2010, as Cook was doing research for his book "American Eagle," he tried to nail down exactly when it became the U.S. national bird and found out that it wasn't. Research at the ...

Bald eagle officially becomes national bird of the U.S. ... it’s believed that there were about 100,000 nesting bald eagles in the U.S. when it was first adopted as the American symbol.

The Brief. The bald eagle became the American national bird on Christmas Eve when President Biden signed a bill written by a Minnesota man. Preston Cook collects eagle memorabilia and his ...