Bald eagle expected to be off U.S. endangered list
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The bald eagle, the U.S. national bird whose numbers dwindled in the 1960s, is expected to be removed on Thursday from the list of creatures classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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By MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff Writer  Record numbers expected in this year's count   Likely to get off the Endangered Species List this year, bald eagles are expected to nest in record numbers this spring across Oklahoma.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but other birds of prey are in trouble. An icon of conservationists, the bald eagle was on the brink of extinction in America&#39;s lower 48
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A decision announced Friday to not list the greater sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species still leaves open the possibility the approximately 1,000 birds remaining in Washington could be listed.
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The survival of some Iowa bird species is threatened, primarily because of habitat loss, according to a group dedicated to the conservation of wild birds.
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By Brian Sargent, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 3--An Oklahoma expert on bald eagles said Friday it would be a good decision to remove the bird from the federal government's list of endangered species.   ------   A federal judge ordered last year the U.S.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Jan. 30--TWIN FALLS -- The Endangered Species Act's list of vulnerable plants and animals soon will become one species shorter when wolves are pulled from the register in about a month.
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The bald eagle, America's national symbol, is flying high after spending three decades in recovery. On Thursday, the U.S. took the eagle off the Endangered Species Act's "threatened" list.
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 19--Over the next few weeks, thousands of bald eagles in California and across the West will make their annual flight northward to nesting and feeding grounds in Canada.
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After dragging its feet for nearly 80 years since President Clinton  declared the bald eagle recovered, the United States Fish and Wildlife  Service is finally set to remove the bald eagle from the Endangered  Species Act list, on or before June 29, 2007.
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More than 6,000 species of butterflies and other insects, as well as mites, fungi and assorted unloved but important species, will also be wiped out when listed endangered species go extinct, scientists said on Thursday.
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The northern spotted owl, the bird at the center of the Pacific Northwest logging wars, will stay on the threatened species list, the government said Thursday.
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT  WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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DOUGLAS, Arizona  - A plan to fence off a third of   the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico may   harm migration routes used by animals including rare birds and   jaguars, environmentalists and U.S. authorities warn.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it is recommending that the orcas that ply the Puget Sound should be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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By Scott Barker, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 11--KINGSTON -- High on the bluff overlooking Watts Bar Lake in  Roane County, a bald eagle perches atop the tip of a dead tree. From a passing  boat, its body seems little more than an inky scratch on a blue sky.
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Most of the western Great Lakes population of gray wolves was removed from the Endangered Species Act on Monday.  (c) 2007 Bismarck Tribune. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.