Maia Edwards, the science director at the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Alaska, told the AP: "They're one of the few conservation success stories of animals that almost went extinct on our ...

And so I think now it's really important to make sure people know that story and learn from it," said Maia Edwards, the science director at the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Alaska.

but golden eagles in Alaska and Canada may migrate south as far as 1,000 miles to wintering areas. You can hear the sound of bald eagles on allaboutbirds.org here. Eagles have about 7,000 feathers.

New Jersey removed bald eagles from the state’s endangered species list, David Blauvelt of Hamburg, N.J., spotted one on his ...

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