Alabama's bald eagle population booming
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After 15 years of checking bald eagle nests from small planes, there are now an estimated 100 nesting pairs, up from 77 the previous year and 10 times the state's recovery goal under the Endangered Species Act. With the nest-to-nest status check by plane ending last year, the state now will start watching over a few dozen nests to monitor the eagles' health.
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Matt Caddell caught a 4-yard touchdown pass in the corner of the end zone from John Parker Wilson with 8 seconds left, lifting Alabama to a 41-38 victory over No. 16 Arkansas on Saturday night, for the first major victory of the Nick Saban era.
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Bird Rescue : Maryland Natural Resources Police last week rescued a bald eagle from certain death last week, when they found the male bird in Frederick County and took it to a veterinary clinic.
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 12--Wildlife activists say recent reports of bald eagles and Canada lynx being caught in hunters' traps provide additional ammunition to a lawsuit that aims to ban trapping in parts of Maine inhabited by the federally protected species.
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By Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer  Every spring, thousands of birds, some weighing a pound or less, set off on a journey of herculean proportions. They fly thousands of miles north, to breeding grounds in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada and to U.S.
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By Keith Rogers  If all goes as planned, the bald eagle will be removed from the endangered species list by month's end, marking the success of efforts to protect the national icon begun 40 years ago, even before the Endangered Species Act became law.
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By Jerry Allegood, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--SWANSBORO -- With hundreds of colorful birds already visiting and calling Eastern North Carolina home, the state is encouraging bird lovers to bring their binoculars and billfolds to watch them.   The N.C.
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At least 19 bald eagles died Friday after gorging themselves on a truck full of fish waste outside a processing plant.
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Bald eagles, whose numbers dwindled in the 1960s, are once again flourishing, the interior secretary said Thursday.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 19--Eagle to appear at Audubon meeting   NICEVILLE -- The Choctawhatchee Audubon Society will not meet in December. The next meeting will be Jan. 4 at 6:30 p.m.
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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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Kennedy Winston scored 22 points and No. 17 Alabama shot 58 percent in a 71-45 victory over Mississippi on Saturday night.
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Long famed for titles, bowls and Bear Bryant, Alabama is gaining a reputation for something far less complimentary: coaching turnover and turmoil.
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Blustery winds and frigid temperatures couldn't shake the maternal instincts of a bald eagle caught on a 24-hour camera while protecting her newly laid egg in a nest perched 70 feet above the Down East coast. For the second year in a row, images from the camera mounted on another pine tree 45 feet away are allowing online viewers worldwide to peek in on the eagle's soon-to-be growing family by logging onto http://www.briloon.org.
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The bald eagle  left the list of threatened and endangered species just in time for Independence Day last week, but will things look as good for another symbolic creature come Easter?
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Science & environment: The most successful revival of a British bird species notches up another two records.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--MOSS POINT -- Egrets wheeling in the sky and pelicans foraging in Bennett Bayou on Friday morning incited a smile from Judy Steckler. "Isn't that a beautiful sight?" she said.