The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis
The bald eagle is a majestic but fearless bird that you wouldn’t want to dispute with. Americans have praised it as “majestic” and “noble” for generations while vilifying the actual bird that inspired their national emblem as a cruel predator of cattle and, allegedly, a kidnapper of children. Jack E. Davis contrasts the era when native peoples coexisted peacefully with that in which others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the verge of extinction. Davis takes us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species.
The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis
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The Bald Eagle is a long-awaited cultural and natural history that shows how this bird’s amazing journey may serve as inspiration today, as we struggle with environmental peril on a larger scale. It is full of spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents.
