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Fact or Fiction: Eagle trying to hatch a rock?

Posted at 8:10 PM, Mar 31, 2023
and last updated 2023-03-31 23:10:00-04

(KGTV) — A story getting some buzz claims an eagle in Missouri is trying to hatch a rock.

It's true.

Murphy lives at the World Bird Sanctuary outside St. Louis.

He's showing great dad skills, sitting every day on what he thinks is an egg. But, unfortunately, he's incubating a rock.
      
Murphy is very protective, squawking when another eagle lands on a branch above the nest he's built.

It takes about 35 days for an eagle egg to hatch, so Murphy may be sitting there a while.