Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bald eagle is associated with America as a national symbol — as American as apple pie — but it’s never been official.

The American tropics are uniquely blessed with birds. Thirty-six percent of the world’s 11,000 bird species live in the region south of the border between the United States and Mexico, more than in ...

The bald eagle became the United States national bird on Dec. 24, 2024, approximately 242 years after most Americans assumed it already was our national bird. In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the ...

Generations of Americans have seen the bald eagle on the backs of the quarters they put in vending machines and the rugs fictional presidents step on in political dramas. But until Monday, it wasn’t ...

The effect of DDT on the Bald Eagle population in the northeastern U.S. was devastating. The effect of DDT, a pesticide widely used in the mid-20th century, on the Bald Eagle population in the ...

The populations of some Latin American birds are declining, even in the countries they symbolize. An Indigenous man seated near an Andean condor at Puracé National Natural Park in Colombia. The condor ...