Field biologists rappelled down a Lake Pleasant cliffside to check on bald eagle nestlings, ensuring the national bird ...

The journey to the nest began with a boat ride across Lake Pleasant, followed by a 20-minute hike up a rocky and prickly ...

Though the pesticide was banned in the 1970s, its effects off the Southern ... Records show around 25 breeding pairs pre-DDT, ...

“Despite its status as a national symbol, the bald eagle has been one of most persecuted birds in the county,” the commission says. DDT was banned in 1972, the commission says, during a ...

Habitat protection afforded by the Endangered Species Act, the federal government’s banning of DDT, and conservation actions taken by the American public have helped bald eagles make a ...

They suffered a drastic population decline because of an insecticide called DDT, which is now banned. Bald eagles feast mostly on fish, which makes London, with the Thames River, an ideal home ...

Bon in California in 1989, the Sedgwick County Zoo said Mariposa “was part of the US Bald Eagle Recovery Programwhich helped ensure the survival of wild chicks due to the harms of DDT.” ...

Though the pesticide was banned in the 1970s, its effects ... pairs pre-DDT, though the actual number likely was higher, according to Sharpe, who has worked on the bald eagle's recovery for ...