A bald eagle ... with DDT when they ate the contaminated fish.” “The chemical interfered with the ability of the birds to ...

Jackie and Shadow have been tending to the trio of eggs ... DDT, and conservation actions taken by the American public have helped bald eagles make a remarkable recovery," the agency said. "Bald ...

The last two mating seasons ended in heartbreak for Jackie and Shadow, Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle couple ... the pesticide DDT, which poisoned the eagles and made their eggs weak.

Many birds, including bald eagles, started laying eggs with shells so thin they’d break when the birds tried to incubate them. DDT was banned in the United States in 1972, and eagle populations ...

Records show around 25 breeding pairs pre-DDT, though the actual number likely was higher, according to Sharpe, who has worked on the bald eagle's recovery ... just over two dozen eggs hatched ...

New Jersey became the latest state to delist the bald eagle ... the banning of DDT, a chemical insecticide with environmental side effects that included thin-shelled eagle eggs.

Because DDT and similar pesticides often prevented eagle eggs from hatching, there were only a little more than 400 known nesting pairs of bald eagles in the country by 1963. The federal ...