• Sleeping black bear found in bald eagle’s nest in Alaska.
• US Fish and Wildlife Service posts the incident on Instagram.
• Black bear raids on eagle nests have caused nestling losses in the past.

A sleeping black bear was spotted in a bald eagle’s nest. While monitoring eagle nests on an Alaskan military base, researchers discovered a bear happily napping in one of the nests.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service posted about the incident on Instagram. “While a napping black bear isn’t what you would expect to find in a bald eagle nest when conducting an eagle nest productivity survey, it might not be too extraordinary on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson – JBER, Alaska. In the past years, a few eagle nests have been raided by black bears with predictably bad results for the nesting eagles (i.e., loss of that year’s nestlings). During a survey flown with a helicopter in May, this nest was occupied by an adult female eagle seen incubating an egg on the nest.”

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