Wild eagle visits eagle pair at Bloomington zoo
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — The pair of bald eagles that live at Miller Park Zoo have been getting visits from a wild eagle that’s stopped by the Bloomington zoo several times.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reported that the wild eagle has even landed in the open-topped enclosure that houses the flightless pair, Beauty and Mathata.
Zoo Superintendent Jay Tetzloff says the eagles have been “talking” back and forth. He says it’s been exciting to watch a wild eagle so closely.
Wildlife biology professor Given Harper of Illinois Wesleyan University says he suspects the wild eagle is looking for a mate. He says it could be an eagle that’s just reaching maturity or one that lost its mate.
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