The bald eagles featured on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ EagleCam have their first chick of 2017. The egg hatched today and the second egg has a pip (scientific term for the hole the chick makes with its egg tooth on the end of its beak) that is getting larger. There might be three chicks by the weekend!
Biologists were concerned that the first egg might not hatch, as it was left in the cold for quite some time immediately after hatching. The pair has proven they have this incubation thing under control.
The EagleCam is a project of the DNR’s Nongame Wildlife Program. To learn more, visit www.dnr.state.mn.us/eco/nongame/index.html
To watch the live video stream, visit www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/webcams/eaglecam/index.html
