Featured on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782, the bald eagle has become a majestic ... Juveniles have brown and white colored mottled feathers and dark eyes and bills.

Eagle parts can be worth big bucks. In the 2011 trafficking case known as , a bald ... eagle feathers and parts for use in their ceremonies. Some of the feather requests are so color specific ...

Federal law also protects all parts of bald eagles, alive or dead, including feathers and egg shells, without a federal, state, or tribal permit. Eaglets make their first unsteady flights about 10 ...

Eagles are sacrosanct for many tribes, and Wiist and his colleagues at the National Eagle Repository provide them with feathers ... receives about 2,300 dead bald and golden eagles, gathered ...