Dec. 24 (UPI) --The bald eagle has been lauded as a symbol of the United States, but it wasn't officially the national bird until Tuesday. President Joe Biden on Christmas Eve signed into law ...

On Dec. 24, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that officially named the bald eagle as the national bird of the United States. Though a longstanding symbol of 'independence, strength and ...

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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 ...

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The bald eagle received a title this week that many may have assumed it already had: the national bird of the United States. For centuries, the bald eagle has been a ubiquitous symbol for the ...

The Bald Eagle has been a symbol of the United States for nearly 250 years, although without legal recognition until now. The Bald Eagle population was on the brink of extinction, but conservation ...

There were more than 315,000 bald eagles across the contiguous United States in 2019, the agency estimated, four times the population of the bird just a decade earlier. • This article originally ...

WASHINGTON — The bald eagle, a symbol of the power and strength of the United States for more than 240 years, earned an overdue honor on Tuesday: It officially became the country’s national bird.