With the nation's emblem, the bald eagle, officially taken off the endangered species list last year, a cadre of bird counters took to lakes Mead and Mohave Jan. 7 in an annual eagle count that posted a record number of birds.

National Park Service employees, along with 47 volunteers from the park service, the Nevada Division of Wildlife, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation, climbed into their boats at sunrise and took off on eight routes around the two lakes that turned up 94 bald eagles and one golden eagle at Lake Mead, and 22 bald eagles and two golden eagles farther south at Lake Mohave.