The White House announced on Christmas Eve President Joe Biden signed a bill officially designating the bald eagle as the national bird. The bill, signed Monday after being passed unanimously by ...

More seriously, our newly-minted national bird is one of a few Endangered Species Act (ESA) success stories. Other species, sadly, haven’t fared as well since the ESA was enacted 50 years ago.

Although the iconic bird of prey is featured prominently on symbols, including the government’s official seal adopted in 1782, the U.S. did not have an official national bird.

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

The White House announced on Christmas Eve that President Joe Biden signed a bill officially designating the bald eagle as the national bird. The bill, signed Monday after being passed unanimously ...

America's national bird is doing great. The government's proposed cuts to nature protections could put that at risk.

President Biden also signed several other significant acts, in addition to establishing the bald eagle as the official national bird, including the Stop Campus Hazing Act and the No CORRUPTION Act ...

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.

But it had never been officially designated to be what many had just assumed it was — the national bird. Advertisement The bald eagle is indigenous to North America.

WATCH: The bald eagle was never officially named the national bird. That could soon change The bald eagle has appeared on the Great Seal of the United States, which is used in official documents ...

President Joe Biden signed 50 new bills into law in a Christmas Eve signing spree as he wraps his last month in office. ... and a measure that finally designates the bald eagle as the national bird.