The bald eagle is officially America's national bird after Biden's signature

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Dec. 24, 2024, 6:45 PM EST


The bald eagle has landed in U.S. Code as President Joe Biden signed a bill Tuesday making the predator the official national bird

Congress passed the measure with unanimous support.

Although the bird of prey is at the center of the Great Seal of the United States, it was never formally recognized as the country's official bird. Some of the country’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, were tasked with creating a national seal but simply couldn't come to an agreement.

So in 1782, a version of the seal with a bald eagle was submitted by Secretary of the Continental Congress Charles Thomson and approved. Most Americans are familiar with the seal's eagle carrying a flag-emblazoned shield holding an olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bald-eagle-officially-americas-national-bird-bidens-signature-rcna185380

[a kennedy]

1. Damn, I thought the Eagle WAS ALWAYS the national symbol.....

Well bout gawd damn time then….thanks POTUS Joe Biden.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. same. After Franklin considered the turkey (not a bad choice) the bald eagle prevailed. On coinage since 1700's??

[prodigitalson]

25. yeah, I've heard that my whole life..

[cstanleytech]

2. I'm betting the muskrat will be the official National rodent soon.

[IronLionZion]

3. The eagle knows who is America's real enemy

[GreenWave]

7. The eagle is smarter than many voters.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Wish he/she would have taken his face off.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. There's still time. ...

I personally, hope that a flock of buzzards gets the honor.

[electric_blue68]

19. I thought of this about right after reading the OP! 😄

[Paladin]

4. trump will probably want to change it to the vulture. (nt)

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Cue the MAGAts saying they never liked the eagle..

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Or watch 47...

Write an executive order, On DaY oNE, to reverse the law.

[lonely bird]

6. Meh

Don’t really care.

Great that the eagle is looked after from an environmental standpoint.

Beyond that?

[BumRushDaShow]

20. "Beyond that?"

[lonely bird]

22. Hmmm

It seems that Joe Walsh and company as well as Steve Miller want a word with me.😁

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. I thought that was one of the Iggles.

[elleng]

8. 1776 - The Egg

[Polybius]

9. Aweome!

And the House and Senate vote was unanimous! Good, because you'd have to be an anti-American to vote against this bill.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Another life-long misconception that this was our official symbol?

[Igel]

13. And a long struggle by a private citizen to get Congress to

accept that the eagle wasn't the national symbol and then draft and present the legislation.

The credit really shouldn't go to the inspector's stamp but to the craftsman.

Thank you, Mr. Cook.

[Elessar Zappa]

28. How about credit to both?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Joe gave 47 the bird! 🦅

[Sneederbunk]

15. FOX reporting Biden gave America the bird on way out.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. 🖕🏻🦊❗️

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Trump would never have picked the bald eagle.

Maybe a dyed, combed-over, blow-dried, hairsprayed eagle. That would be the baddest eagle in history.

[prodigitalson]

24. you mean this whole time I could have been eating them?

[3catwoman3]

26. All my life I've thought the bald eagle already...

…was our official bird.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[Oliver Bolliver Butt]

29. Not what I'd do with my last days of "absolute immunity"

just sayin