eagles

Man wearing an orange hard hat up in a tree next to a bald eagle nest. One brown eaglet sits inside the nest to the right of the person and the tree trunk

What eagles can tell us about the health of the Great Lakes

Kate Furby

Blood is thicker than water. Scientists are using baby eagle blood to assess the health of Michigan’s environment. Because eagles are top predators, heavily linked to lakes and rivers, they provide a proxy for water quality.

American bald eagles have recovered after the population dropped dramatically due to DDT poisoning.

Environment & Climate Change

Bald eagles nearly died out. What can we learn from their return to the southern Great Lakes?

Emma McIntosh|The Narwhal

The pesticide DDT nearly wiped out North America’s bald eagles. Communities, scientists, and politicians worked hard to bring this symbolic bird back from the brink.

Starr, a female bald eagle, looks over her eaglets in a nest along the Mississippi River in April. She is raising the three eaglets along with her two male partners, Valor I and Valor II.

An Unusual Family Of Bald Eagles Adds 3 Eaglets

Francesca Paris

Valor I, Valor II and Starr, a trio of bald eagles in Illinois, hatched three eaglets this year. No such luck for the closely watched eagle couples of Washington, D.C.

Environment & Climate Change

Federal agency changes rules on accidental eagle deaths

Rebecca Williams

Bald eagles came off the endangered species list in 2007 because they were doing so well. These days you can see more bald eagles than in any time in the…

Politics & Government

Poachers could face higher fines in Michigan

Steve Carmody

State lawmakers are taking aim at elk and moose poachers in Michigan.Lawmakers are considering tripling the fine poachers pay if they are caught illegally…