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

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...