The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

Summary

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as majestic and noble yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the United States' founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction.