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

Cook urged Minnesota lawmakers in Washington D.C. to introduce legislation naming the bald eagle the national bird, which passed the U.S. Senate back in July and the U.S. House on Monday.

The bald eagle officially became the symbol of the U.S. after centuries of being recognized as one. The bald eagle’s flight ...

The combined efforts of a Minnesota resident and politician led to the adoption of the bald eagle as the official national bird in December. While the bald eagle has informally represented the U.S ...

Among the new laws includes legislation to fight child ... to make the bald eagle official were spearheaded by Preston Cook, the co-chair of the National Eagle Center in Minnesota, who first ...

one of the Eagle Center's bald eagle ambassadors, as she is held by Al Cooper, a volunteer and vice president of the National Eagle Center Board, during an event to celebrate the signing of the ...

an oversight left undone in law because the bald eagle was already on the national seal and many thought it already had that status, said Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who sponsored legislation ...