Bald Eagles adopt and feed baby hawk as one of their own




“It would require either the eagle to bring them to the nest or the alternative was the hawk somehow laid her eggs in the nest when he was absent,” independent biologist Kerry Fisher said.

The most common theory among biologists is that the mother eagle ‘kidnapped’ the hawk to feed it to her eaglets, according to Bird.

“Because hormones are driving these birds to do what they do it, the hormonal urge to mother it and feed it overtook its urge to kill it and feed it to the other eaglets,” Bird said.

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Local birdwatchers have been keeping an eye on the hawk in the nest for over a week. Just when they thought this couldn’t get any more surreal, a local photographer captured a photo that seems to show two hawks in the nest.

Now the nest is generating a lot of questions.

Perhaps the biggest question, he says, is whether the eaglets can continue to see a hawk as a brother and not breakfast.
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