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Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow abandon eggs that won’t hatch after weeks of tending

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The Sacramento Bee

Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow have been tending to their two eggs in California through snow and storms since mid-January. But the eggs have been weeks overdue to hatch, so experts said there likely wouldn’t be any eaglets from this clutch. The two eagles continued to incubate the eggs despite this. Now they have given up and left the eggs in the nest near Big Bear, the Friends of Big Bear Valley said in a Sunday, March 5, Facebook post.

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