A flightless bald eagle who resorted to incubating a rock has been given the most heartwarming gift: an eaglet to take care of.
Murphy, who lives at the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri, took to nursing the rock in the giant enclosure he shared with five other bald eagles back in March. After constructing a pretend nest, the 31-year-old bird proceeded to nurture a rock as an egg.
“Our story began when Keeper Kerstin noticed Murphy the eagle protecting a large depression in the ground. The spot was sparsely but carefully decorated with leaves and branches, and featured a simple rock right in the center,” the sanctuary wrote in a Facebook post. “Later that day, Keeper Kerstin saw Murphy sitting on the rock as if it were an egg, and he continued to do so day after day.”…