Murphy, the bald eagle who delighted the world by trying to hatch a rock before becoming an orphaned bird’s foster dad, died this month. He was 33. On Tuesday, the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, said it was “heartbroken” that its bald eagle and “extraordinary foster dad” was found dead in his aviary […]
Murphy, a 33-year-old bald eagle at the World Bird Sanctuary known for trying to hatch a rock and later becoming a foster dad to orphaned eaglets, died on March 15th from head trauma, possibly due to recent storms. He came to the sanctuary in the mid-1990s with a broken leg. His unusual behavior of incubating a rock gained him international attention, and he successfully fostered two eaglets, one of which was released back into the wild in 2023.
