An Unusual Family Of Bald Eagles Adds 3 Eaglets
Valor I, Valor II and Starr, a trio of bald eagles in Illinois, hatched three eaglets this year. No such luck for the closely watched eagle couples of Washington, D.C.
by Francesca Paris
Apr 16, 2019
3 minutes
You can tell Tolstoy that not every happy family is alike after all.
Along the Mississippi River in Illinois lives an unusual family of six bald eagles. Two males and one female are caring for three eaglets — with the world watching on a livestream.
The two males, Valor I and Valor II, and the female, Starr, have been together since 2017, in the backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and
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