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Eat, prey, love: bald eagles adopt baby hawk into their nest in Canada

The hawk, which is usually prey for eagles, is in excellent health after being taken in, and now ‘thinks he’s a bald eagle’, according to one expert
The chick was first seen in an eagle nest like this one in June. Photograph: Shaun Cunningham/Alamy

Biologists and bird watchers in Canada are closely monitoring a young red-tailed hawk that has – against all odds – been adopted into a nest full of bald eagles and is seemingly thriving after taking on eagle-like behaviour.

The chick was first seen in the nest in British Columbia in early

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