Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

A bald eagle flies over the Mississippi River toward Wisconsin from Lake City, Minn., prime territory for the newly official U.S. national bird, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.

The bald eagle is now the official bird of the United States, nearly 250 years after it was first used as a symbol of the newly founded nation.

A bald eagle, its wings and talons spread wide, has graced the Great Seal of the United States since 1782, and appears on passport covers, the $1 bill, military insignia, and myriad different ...

The bald eagle is now the official bird of the United States, nearly 250 years after it was first used as a symbol of the newly founded nation that’s deeply polarized politically today.

The bald eagle is now the official bird of the United States, nearly 250 years after it was first used as a symbol of the newly founded nation that’s deeply polarized politically today.

Relatives place bald eagle feathers on the heads of new high school graduates, as a mark of accomplishment and as reverence to the bird they hold sacred, at a ceremony at the Prairie Island Indian ...