Upvote!
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
SSTF@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Bipartisan bill naming bald eagle as the national bird heads to Biden's desk

www.usatoday.com

external-link
message-square
17
link
fedilink
70
external-link

Bipartisan bill naming bald eagle as the national bird heads to Biden's desk

www.usatoday.com

SSTF@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
message-square
17
link
fedilink
The bald eagle, once on the brink of extinction, has made a "remarkable" comeback in recent years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    93
    ·
    1 year ago

    Americans: we want affordable healthcare

    US Government: best we can do is make eagles the official bird. You didn’t even know it wasn’t already, did you?

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 year ago

      Good thing we fixed it before people noticed! There is no telling what could have happened

  • TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    33
    ·
    1 year ago

    So, it was never official? They need a bill for this!?!?

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    1 year ago

    I had always thought it already was.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    deleted by creator

    • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      iirc, it wasn’t named natl. bird bcs you cant eat the natl. bird, and we uh, we like eating turkeys

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        deleted by creator

        • Botzo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          1 year ago

          Can confirm. Tom attacked my Volvo.

          • naught@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            +1 classic Tom

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          They are also rather graceful.

          But, I say turkey because, like. Have you ever seen them jumping to get at apples/crab apples?

          It’s freaking amazing.

          • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            9 months ago

            deleted by creator

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              I should note… Bald Eagle’s aren’t all bad…

              Though I will say if it was a turkey on the perch… Trump would have been wearing several maxipads the next day.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, the turkey he wanted to be the national bird was not the fat and stupid kind people eat for dinner, it was the angry dinosaur that was around in his day. I still see them around here. They have spurs on their legs that would rip your stomach open if it wanted to do it. You don’t want to fuck with a wild tom.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Nah he wanted the turkey because it is clever and resourceful. The bald eagle is a scavenger and not particularly clever. Turkeys are smart.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I bet if that had happened we would all eat eagles on thanksgiving!

  • zib@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Another productive day for congress I see.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Tackling the tough issues, like enshrining trash birds as national birds despite the clear State association. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bald-eagles-love-trash-drop-garbage-on-human-neighbors/

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    1 year ago

    Quick! Think of what a Bald Eagle’s cry sounds like!

    Did it sound like this? Or were you actually thinking of the cry of a Red-Tailed Hawk?

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen a lot of eagles on the west coast, those ones to me

      sound like

      Ukikikikiii~

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    i might have voted this one down, because the ‘FINDINGS’ part of the legislation didn’t include mention of the species’ dislike for spray painted diaper fillers.

News@lemmy.world

news@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !news@lemmy.world

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.

Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.


5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.


7. No duplicate posts.

If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.

All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.09K users / day
  • 6.25K users / week
  • 11.6K users / month
  • 24.5K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 36.5K subscribers
  • 28K Posts
  • 610K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • JonsJava@lemmy.world
  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.world
  • jeffw@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • rjc@lemmy.world
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.15
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org