Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle
Author: David Menke, Source: National Digital Library of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 2002, Public Domain
  • Chosen in 1782 as the U.S. emblem for its strength, independence, beauty, majesty, and indigenousness to North America.
  • Is the prominent feature on the Great Seal of the U.S. but also found on many institutions, documents, coins, and one dollar bills!
  • For over 100 years, faced threat of extinction due to capture, hunting, and pesticides damaging to their habitat.
  • Considered sacred by Native Americans as man’s connection to the divine.