Latvian Golden Eagles ~ Spilve Tries To Wake Up Klints! Touches & Watches Her Deceased Eaglet 7.1.20

7.1.2020 ~ Spilve returned to the nest and does not realize that Klints has passed away this morning. She goes over to him and stands and stares at his lifeless little body for a very long time. She touches him with her beak as if to gently wake him up from sleeping - looking for some movement. She spent over an hour on the nest with her baby - almost like she was in denial and could not understand why he was not responding to her.

She pulled out that nestover and brought it over to Klints as if to entice him to eat. It was truly heartbreaking to watch her looking at Klints and not understanding what has happened to him. She will eventually fly off the nest and return with prey to feed Klints (that is in a subsequent video) - showing she did not know he had passed away. Thank you for watching!

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

Everyone is welcome to join the new facebook group "Latvian Golden Eagle Group ~ Spilve & Virsis" https://www.facebook.com/groups/204573410834169/

Virsis, a Golden Eagle male, and Spilve, a newly-mature Golden Eagle female, breed in their artificial nest, which was installed in 2010. Most recently the eagles successfully breed here in 2016. The nest is located in a bog on an island managed by the Latvian State Forests. Last year a female (Spilve) appeared regularly but she was too young to breed. For 2020, Spilve laid two eggs - on March 28th and April 1st. Egg #1 is non viable & egg #2 hatched on May 10, 2020. Klints passed away on July 1st 2020 after Dad Virsis went missing and food was scarce.

Courtesy of: Latvian Golden Eagle/LVM Klinšu ērglis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW5quD6bB2c&feature=emb_logo

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