A pair of bald eagles and their two (soon to be three) offspring who live atop a tree in Decorah, Iowa, have been watched in recent weeks by about 11 million people thanks to a webcam set up by the Raptor Resource Project, a nonprofit organization that works to restore and protect the Midwest’s population of falcons, eagles, ospreys, hawks and owls.
What is it about this show that attracts so many viewers?
“This is a positive,” project executive director Robert Anderson told All Things Considered host Melissa Block this afternoon. “Everybody, when they log on they go ‘wow.’ … It’s just good to have something positive” to watch with so much bad news in the world.
And something quite positive is likely to happen in the next day or so, Anderson says: the hatching of the third egg.
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