National Birds Day is not just a celebration but a call to action, raising public awareness of the realities of bird breeding mills, the bird trade and ways to improve the welfare of birds already in ...

An eagle enthusiast has been lobbying for the designation for years. On Christmas Eve, President Biden signed legislation ...

Medical experts argue that Congress should provide significant funding for medical research to combat bird flu.

The United States has used the bald eagle as a national symbol since George Washington was president. But it only became the national bird recently, and only after a Minnesota man caught the oversight ...

Even though the bald eagle has often been a symbol of the United States, the nation has actually never had an official bird.

The bald eagle is now, legally, the national bird, and there’s no place more excited about it than Wabasha, MN – home of the National Eagle Center, where dozens gathered Monday to recognize the moment ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it will award $306 million in additional funding to monitor ...

While an X user posted: 'I went to school in the 70's. The bald eagle has always been our national bird. Now they're saying that it wasn't. Makes no sense to me.' One user joked on Instagram ...

Cook's eagle research led to the discovery that the bald eagle wasn't our national bird, so he wrote a simple bill giving eagles the designation. He got bipartisan support and sponsorship from Sen.

the values of being stewards of our land, which this area is all about here," Klobuchar said. Preston Cook is the Minnesotan who discovered there wasn't an official national bird. "It really does ...