Livestream footage from a bald eagle’s nest-cam captured the extraordinary moment when a family of bald eagles adopted a tiny baby red-tailed hawk on Gabriola Island in B.C.
An adult bald eagle dropped off what looked like a ball of fluff into its nest—presumably live food for its young eaglet to start tearing limb from limb.
But, the family apparently had a change of heart, and decided to raise what was actually a meager, helpless hawklet as one of their own instead.
“This bird likely came from a red-tailed hawk nest that was preyed upon by the adult bald eagles,” Professor David Bird, an ornithologist at McGill University, told CBC….