In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the Great Seal of the United States and Americans just assumed it was our national bird ...
After learning the U.S. doesn't officially recognize the bald eagle as its national bird, a Minnesota man swooped in and wrote a bill for Congress. This week, Biden signed it into law.
(FOX 9) - The United States has used the bald eagle as a national symbol since George Washington ... "I wrote a very simple bill that did one thing: 'It is our national bird'," Cook said.
The bald eagle almost did not survive to become our national symbol. Overhunting nearly wiped out the bald eagle in the early decades of the 20th century until it was protected by the 1940 Bald and ...