America Almost Lost the Bald Eagle 🦅 #Shorts #LessonToday
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Three takeaways
In 1963 only about 417 nesting pairs of bald eagles were left in the lower 48 United States.
The main cause was the pesticide DDT, which built up in the fish eagles eat and made their eggshells so thin they broke during incubation.
The U.S. banned DDT in 1972, and the bald eagle was protected under the Endangered Species Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, with nest protection and…