A Minnesota man's mission to (finally) make the bald eagle the U.S. national bird
After learning that the bald eagle is not officially the national bird, an "eaglevangelist" is working with Congress to remedy that omission.
WABASHA, Minn. — You would be excused if you thought this wasn’t necessary, but the bald eagle is one step closer to being designated the national bird of the United States.
Late one Monday evening back in July after most senators had already gone home for the day, a unanimous motion passed the Senate to slip the formal national bird designation into the U.S. code.
“Without objection, it is so ordered,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., said after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., moved to pass the bill with no one else in the chamber.
Just like that, it was off to the House.
The U.S. code already designates the oak tree as the national tree of the United States and the rose as the national flower, and Congress even voted in 2016 to deem the bison the national mammal, but the bald eagle is not the national bird of the U.S. — yet.
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