04/25/2026
Furry friends really make everything better.
One of the 2-week-old bald eaglets at the U.S. Steel nest in a suburb of Pittsburgh swallowed a fishing hook attached to a yellow synthetic worm early Saturday.
Had it not been for the eagle-eyed fans of the live-streamed we**am watching the young chick in West Mifflin swallow the hook and other interventions, the young eagle would have died, said Dr. Jesse Fallon, director of veterinary medicine at the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia.
“It was that bird’s only chance for survival,” he said. “We do not want to interfere with nature, but this was one of the rare circumstances where it was the only option.”
Read more: https://www.post-gazette.com/life/outdoors/2026/04/19/pittsburgh-bald-eagles-chick-injured/stories/202604180057
