"There's a difference between being a licensed waterfowl hunter and being out there and just shooting at any bird that flies across the sky,” said CPW spokesperson Kara Van Hoose

Jackie the bald eagle laid a second egg three days after first of the season as Friends of Big Bear Valley nonprofit captures precise timing on livestream.

“There’s an awful lot of eagles in Ohio,” Babb said. With the help of conservationists, the eagle population in Ohio has bounced back remarkably since 1979, when there were only four nesting pairs of bald eagles in the state. The mid-winter survey was conducted from Jan. 7 to Jan. 21.

On a frigid January afternoon in Northglenn, a bald eagle turned up on the icy edge of Croke Reservoir with a gunshot wound in its wing, and now state wildlife officers want to know who pulled the trigger.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bald eagle became the United States national bird on Dec. 24, 2024, approximately 242 years after most Americans assumed it already was our national bird. In 1782 the bald eagle was ...

That happy event occurred Jan. 23, 2026 at 4:32:24 in the afternoon, following Jackie displaying signs of active egg-laying behaviors (sometimes referred to as "tea-kettling," due to the low-whistling sounds the eagle makes).

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