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The latest
edition was seen on an "eagle cam" that has been providing live
footage of the first bald eagles to nest since 1947 in the
Arboretum, a park-like conservatory in northeast Washington.
The video from the American Eagle Foundation shows the parents,
and two fluffy eaglets in the nest. The first eaglet hatched on
Friday.
"Things are going to get a lot more interesting with four in the
D.C. Eagle Cam nest! Mr. President and The First Lady are going
to have their hands full!" the American Eagle Foundation, a
conservation group dedicated to protecting bald eagles, wrote on
its Facebook page.
The first egg was laid on Feb. 10 and the other on Feb. 14.
The pair built their nest in a tulip poplar tree in 2015. The
federally protected bird, or Haliaeetus leucocephalus, is
featured on currency and in the presidential seal, and was
adopted as the national U.S. bird symbol in 1782.
The bald eagle almost disappeared from the United States decades
ago, but habitat protection and the banning of the pesticide DDT
led to its recovery. The bird was removed from the federal
endangered species list in 2007.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas; Editing by Alan
Crosby)
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