Bald eagle coming off endangered list Final Edition

The president was joined on a flag-backed platform on the South Lawn of the White House by a 10-year-old bald eagle named Challenger, who flapped his long brown wings and cocked his snowcapped head. The eagle will continue to be protected, from hunting or capture by two laws: the Migratory Bird Trea...

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Published inExpositor (Brantford)
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brantford, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 03.07.1999
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Clinton, Bill
WASHINGTON
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Summary:The president was joined on a flag-backed platform on the South Lawn of the White House by a 10-year-old bald eagle named Challenger, who flapped his long brown wings and cocked his snowcapped head. The eagle will continue to be protected, from hunting or capture by two laws: the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which prohibits the taking, killing, possession, transportation and importation of migratory birds; and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which bans the taking, possession, transportation, export and import of a bald or golden eagles, alive or dead. When the Continental Congress in 1782 placed the bald eagle in the centre of the Great Seal of the United States, an olive branch in one claw and 13 arrows in the other, there were as many as 500,000 eagles in the skies of North America.
ISSN:0837-3744