Tag: Bald eagles

Vermont has removed the bald eagle from its list of threatened and endangered species. Until 2008, when a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) pair was documented raising its offspring along the...

Lead poisoning is suppressing bald and golden eagle populations across the United States, researchers found, in what they say is the first study to show continent-wide, population-level impacts in the...

Bald eagles have made a remarkable recovery from the brink of extinction, but lead contamination diminished that recovery, researchers found, and it continues to leave the species more vulnerable to...

New Jersey researchers have documented nesting pairs of bald eagles in all 21 New Jersey counties, a first for the state, which has seen a rise in bald eagle populations...

For bald eagles nesting close to the shores of the Great Lakes, high chemical levels — including compounds previously found in the species and new or emerging ones — may...

Different flight preferences and the size of the avian vessel are responsible for the vastly different shapes of bird wings. Researchers categorized 61 bird species by flight styles like hovering...

Fast-tracked bald eagle recovery may have taken a bite out of osprey and heron populations in Voyageurs National Park. Populations of fish-eating birds like ospreys (Pandion haliaetus), bald eagles (Haliaeetus...

Maryland officials are cracking down on the use of a banned pesticide believed to have killed at least 19 bald eagles in the state since 2016. The state’s Agriculture Department...

As a Duke Energy helicopter hovered 500 feet over a bald eagle nest near Lake James, North Carolina, environmental scientist Misti Sporer peered through her binoculars. “Oooh, I’m seeing one...

An eagle family has become Washington D.C.’s favorite new reality TV stars thanks to a live webcam feed. Watch as a pair of adult bald eagles watches over two recent...