Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

Title: Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird Author: Jack E Davis ISBN: 9781324094104 Publisher: Liveright Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Nature 1513186 Publisher Description: 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 nation's 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. Filled with spectacular storie