Patriotic Symbols
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The American Flag
The Bald Eagle
The Washington Monument
The Statue of Liberty
The Bald Eagle
National Bird of the U.S.A
Click here to hear the sound a Bald Eagle makes and see pictures of them in the wild.
Did You Know...?
The bald eagle was adopted as the national symbol in
1782
when the national seal was created, see below.
On the seal, the bald eagle holds
13 olive branches
and
13 arrows
.
The olive branch stands for the power to make
peace
, and the arrows stand for the power to make
war.
Eagle Cam!
Click to watch Bald Eagles in the wild LIVE at the Raptor Resource Center in Iowa
.