Photo credit: REUTERS/Jason Reed/Files Reuters reported Monday on the status of Bald Eagles in America.
With the number of Bald Eagles in the United States hitting the highest level since World War II, the Fish and Wildlife Service said on Monday it will decide on removing them from the list of threatened and endangered species by June 29.
The Bald Eagle is the country's national bird and its image bedecks the presidential seal.
There are now 9,789 breeding pairs of Bald Eagles in the lower 48 states, the agency said.
Minnesota tops the list with 1,312 pairs of the white-headed birds. Vermont saw its first baby eagles hatch in 2006.
In 1995, the service downgraded the bird to threatened status from endangered.
The eagles would continue to be managed under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
This is very good news, especially to folks in Minnesota.
I once visited Glacier National Park when the Bald Eagles were there (the eagles don't go there anymore), with 42 of them visible at one time. It was so impressive!
The fact that they're coming back in such good numbers gives so many other people the chance to be just as impressed.
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