
BIR002-00046
At the Sutton Avian Research Center, bald eagle eggs are hatched as part of the Southern Bald Eagle Restoration Program. This particular egg developed a small hole during incubation that workers mended with a special adhesive so that the chick could continue to develop and hatch.
Keywords
- Bald eagle
- Biologist
- Captive breeding
- chick
- Egg
- endangered
- federally
- hatch
- recovery
- Science
- Sutton Avian Research Center
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