Bald eagles no longer threatened?

With the number of bald eagles in the United States hitting the highest level since World War II, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it would decide whether to remove them from the list of threatened and endangered species by June 29.

There are 9,789 breeding pairs of bald eagles in the contiguous states, the agency said, up from a low of 417 breeding pairs in 1963 after the now-banned pesticide DDT damaged the birds’ reproductive systems.

The eagles would continue to be managed under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.