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"Not a bad way to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday," proclaimed NBC anchor Brian Williams as the United States' national symbol was removed from the endangered species list. It was almost like watching The Colbert Report on Comedy Central as CBS' John Blackstone showed us "the first time in 200 years that there are real Philadelphia eagles" and Anne Thompson, for NBC's In Depth, gloried in "the distinctive head and beak, white tail and powerful six-foot wingspan." Thompson noted that the challenge for the American bald eagle has changed: 40 years ago DDT pesticide was the threat as it damaged the bird's egg shell; now human development threatens to encroach on the eagle's habitat. CBS' Blackstone concentrated on human help not harm: zookeepers from San Francisco intervened to help bald eagles return to the channel island of Catalina off the California coast.
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