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DECORAH, Ia. - As many as 100,000 people have logged-in at any given time on their computers to watch two bald eagles incubating three eggs in a nest, 80-feet high in a cottonwood tree in Iowa.

People from more than 130 countries have logged on to watch, and teachers across the country are using it in their science classes.

Since the cameras were set up, the web site has had more than 10 million hits.

The parent eagles have been together for four years and have successfully hatched eaglets every year.

Their nest is almost 6 feet across and weighs about one-and-a-half tons.

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Beauty and the Beak

Beauty is an 8 year old American Bald Eagle rescued two years ago in Alaska after she was found nearly dead and emaciated after a having her top beak shot off and left to die. The resulting damage from the bullet left Beauty with only a small portion of her left upper beak and nearly eliminated the majority of the right side.

A team attached an artificial beak to the 15-pound eagle in mid-May, improving her appearance and, more importantly, helping her grasp food. “She's got a grill,” joked Nate Calvin, the Boise engineer who spent 200 hours designing the complex beak.

The new beak is only a temporary fix, designed to nail down precise measurements. A final beak made of tougher material will be created and attached later, though her saviors don't plan to release her back into the wild. They say that she has spent too much time with humans that the final beak will still not be strong enough to tear flesh from prey.

(via Animal Crazy)

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Irish eagle chick is first in century

A wild golden eagle has been hatched in Ireland for the first time in nearly a century.

Two chicks were hatched in a remote area of the Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal but one of the young birds died after five days.

There will be a further nervous wait to see if the remaining chick can continue to grow and fledge in late July.

Golden eagles last bred in Glenveagh back in 1910.

The bird had become extinct in Ireland but was reintroduced at Glenveagh six years ago in an effort to reintroduce the bird to Ireland.