While bald eagles are no longer endangered, conservationists remain vigilant. Ongoing monitoring, habitat preservation, and ...

In the early 1970s, America’s bald eagles were headed for extinction, and had become an endangered species. Although ...

Bald eagles don’t have the characteristic white head feathers until they become adults. which usually takes four or five years years. “They go through different plumage stages in their first ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Bald eagles, aka Haliaeetus leucocephalus, seem to be models of decorum. The raptors mate for life, unless one partner ...