“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 Latin name “Haliaeetus leucocephalus” means “white-headed sea eagle.” The word bald refers to an old English word meaning white, like that of a judge’s wig in the English legal system.

The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft of sorts since the early 2000's, when the federal government took the ...