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

Imagine your spark bird is the bald eagle. You thought you were applying for a summer internship with the Student Conservation Association, thesca.org, during college. But what you were really getting ...

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

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

On a cliff’s edge, overlooking the rippling waters of Lake Pleasant, biologists from the Arizona Game and Fish Department anchored ropes to nearby palo verde trees before carefully lowering ...

Once on the brink of extinction, these majestic birds have made a remarkable comeback since the 1973 Endangered Species Act was enacted.

Biologists from the Arizona Game and Fish Department checked the health of bald eagle nestlings near Lake Pleasant, fitting them with leg bands to track the birds. Bald eagle populations dwindled ...

but with the 1973 Endangered Species Act and the banning of DDT, the Bald Eagles have been making a remarkable comeback. “With the numbers climbing as they have been in the past few years ...

Two baby eagles that recently hatched in California now have names after a group of schoolchildren helped narrow down an abundance of suggestions.