“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...

The adult bald eagle doesn't have the "bald" moniker because ... adult bald eagles don't even develop their striking white head and tail feathers until they are mature, somewhere between 4 and ...

Obviously, adult bald eagles aren’t really bald, either—their heads have bright white plumage that contrasts with their dark body feathers ... movies and on TV: An eagle flies overhead ...

from the nearby Crow Indian Reservation. Around his waist was a decorative piece strung with eagle feathers, and he carried a short wooden stick carved into a bald eagle head, a single feather hanging ...

In the 2011 trafficking case known as , a bald eagle carcass sold for $1,000. A single feather went for $500. The case took two years to close. Dan Rolince, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office ...