The Kansas City Star
BY HELENA WEGNER

A female bald eagle lost one of its eggs less than a week after a storm swept across Minnesota, blanketing the bird in snow. One of its two eggs cracked in the nest, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Nongame Wildlife Program said in a Wednesday, March 1, Facebook post. “In the 10 years we’ve been watching this nest, we have never seen this occur,” the agency said. It’s unclear how the egg cracked. This bald eagle laid its first egg this year on Feb. 15, according to the DNR. It laid another egg on Feb. 18. Wildlife officials are still optimistic about the egg that’s intact.

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