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Bald eagle "Challenger"

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-06-29 09:27

US interior secretary Dirk Kempthorne (L) makes an announcement beside Challenger, a bald eagle, during a ceremony held at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, June 28, 2007. The American bald eagle, pushed to near-extinction in the United States by the pesticide DDT, is now recovered and will be removed from the Endangered Species list, the US interior secretary said on Thursday. [Reuters]