27-05-2019 22:09 via ocregister.com

Cookie, a Big Bear bald eagle chick born last month, has died

The baby bald eagle chick born last month in the Big Bear Lake area called Cookie has died, most likely because of hypothermia, U.S. Forest Service officials said on Monday, May 27.
A late-season storm on Sunday pushed overnight temperatures down to 26 degrees and added a couple inches of snow after rainfall, which can be a deadly mix to young chicks, the U.S. Forest Service said.
“We had done a checkup on them and did some banding on Friday and both appeared to be healthy and looked good,
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