2-day-old baby eagle has ‘heartbreaking’ death when nest plunges from Colorado tree

A days-old eaglet had a “heartbreaking” death when its nest fell from a tree in Colorado, park officials said.

The baby eaglet died April 4 at the Standley Lake Regional Park in Westminster, according to the park’s Facebook.

Bald eagle parents Mom and Dad were tending to an eaglet that had hatched April 2.

Two days later, the nest plunged to the ground below, bringing the baby eagle with it.

“Tonight, our beloved bald eagle pair lost their home. Our rangers were informed that their nest has fallen,” officials said in a social media post.

Park rangers soon found the eaglet dead near the tree.

The eaglet’s body was recovered and taken to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge for a “proper burial.”

“Mother nature can bring joy and heartbreak. This is so sad for this wonderful pair of eagles,” one person commented on Facebook.

Bald eagle parents also lost two eaglets in the same nest last year, park officials said.

However, it’s not possible to know if they were the same parents because the birds are not banded and there is not a live camera on the nest.

Westminster is about 10 miles north of Denver.

Eagle parents across US face tragedy

These bald eagles weren’t the first to face tragedies this year.

A storm brought down a 20-year-old bald eagle nest in Minnesota on April 2 — a week after the eagles’ only egg hatched. The pair’s second egg cracked the month before.

Beloved bald eagles Jackie and Shadow had been tending to two eggs for well over a month in their nest near Big Bear, California, before realizing neither eggs would hatch, McClatchy News previously reported.

Another pair of California eagles also lost their eggs.

Liberty and Guardian lost one egg shortly after it was laid. The couple’s “miracle” egg then burst in their nest in Redding on March 28, around the time when the egg was supposed to hatch.

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