A bald eagle that will never be able to fly is spending his last years at a bird refuge in Missouri. Last month, one of his caretakers at World Bird Sanctuary (WBS) saw something strange. Keeper Kerstin saw Murphy, the eagle watching over a big hole in the ground. The area had a simple rock in the middle and branches and leaves that were placed nicely but not too much. That day and every day after that, Keeper Kerstin saw Murphy sitting on the rock like it was an egg. For a male bald eagle, this is a pretty normal thing to do since they both…

Researchers recently went to Long Lake, Wisconsin, in the middle of July. The people who were part of The Loon Project thought they would see a normal day for the birds on the water. But the experts were shocked when a mother loon swam by them slowly with a baby on her back. No, it wasn't a loon. That was a little baby. There was no one in the room who had seen anything like it before. The story was mostly put together by the experts after a lot of careful questioning and observation. The loon couple was already parents before the duckling came along. The…

Wildlife officials said that an elusive elk that had been walking around the mountains of Colorado for at least two years with a car tyre around its neck had been set free. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the male elk, which is four and a half years old and weighs 600 pounds, was tranquillized on Saturday evening after being seen near Pine Junction, southwest of Denver. The police couldn't cut through the steel in the tire's bead, so they had to cut off the elk's five-pointed antlers to get rid of the load. "We would have preferred to cut the tyre and leave the antlers for…