Once dwindling due to insecticide use and other environmental harms, the birds have made a significant come-back.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced on Jan. 6 that Gov. Phil Murphy's administration officially ...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy's administration removed bald eagles and ospreys from the state's endangered species list ...

The state was able to delist the species because their reproductive rate over multiple years reached sustainable levels.

Eagles, along with their fish-loving cousins, osprey, were once almost gone from New Jersey. Both species have recovered ...

Bald eagles and ospreys were removed from the state Endangered Species List after years of recovery efforts, the DEP ...

The populations of the birds of prey have rebounded over the past 40 years after they dwindled largely due to DDT insecticide ...

The bird populations have recovered to the point where their question of their survival in the Garden State is no longer in ...

Bald eagles are now categorized as special concern, and ospreys are now considered "stable" instead of "threatened." According to the New Jersey Fish and Wildlife Department, efforts to recover ...

The bald eagle and the osprey were both removed from New Jersey's list of endangered species on Monday, reflecting 40 years of work to restore the iconic birds' populations. On Monday ...