To have hope, sometimes you have to look to the sky.
With its regal pose and a wingspan of over 6 feet, the bald eagle has been the national bird of the United States since 1782.
For Native Americans, the soaring raptor has been sacred for thousands of years longer.
And the bird can be spotted across New York, most notably at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in the Finger Lakes region, the result of a robust effort to reintroduce bald eagles to the state that launched in 1976. The Montezuma program used a falconry technique called “hacking” to help release young birds into the wild.