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adorned themselves with its feathers to represent various degrees of rank or ability in battle. The feathers were so sacred among some Native American cultures that they were never to touch the ground, the individual who let them do so would fear a curse.
European settlers viewed the bald eagle with far less respect. They saw the bird as a potential livestock predator and told tales of eagles carrying away full-grown sheep. In fact, the bald eagle’s primary diet is fish. It also eats ducks, rodents, snakes, and even dead animals, but it poses little or no threat to livestock.
Nonetheless, farmers, ranchers, government trappers and bounty hunters persecuted the bird for decades. By 1940, experts feared the national emblem would be hunted to extinction.
Congress enacted the Bald Eagle Protection Act that year, making it illegal to kill, harass, or possess the birds (without a permit), or to sell bald eagles or eagle parts.
But if the 1940s seemed at the outset to offer promise for the harassed bird, that promise soon disappeared in a cloud of pesticides. DDT and other pesticides were sprayed throughout the nation, and
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