John Murphy The bald eagle’s journey began with incubating a rock, but it soon evolved into a bonding with an abandoned eagle baby.A bald eagle at a refuge in Missouri recently took in a juvenile chick after going viral for adopting a rock.Tweets featuring the 31-year-old bird Murphy, who lives at Missouri’s Valley Park’s World Bird Sanctuary, went viral in March. Visitors were notified that Murphy was caring for a rock by a sign on the enclosure’s fence.

Murphy is the eagle you see resting on a perch in the far left corner of the room. According to the notice, Murphy is not injured, ill, or in any kind of trouble. He is meticulously incubating a rock in his ground-level nest! We hope everything works well for him!

With nearly 140,000 likes, the tweet reached over 4.5 million views. The sanctuary shared an update on Murphy and the stone, eventually named “RockBaby,” on Facebook on March 26.

While Murphy’s nest and rock-egg metaphor may bring a pang of sadness to your heart, know that it is merely a biological reaction to the arrival of spring. If you’re feeling down, there’s no need to be; Murphy isn’t.

Murphy, according to a later update on April 4, became too protective of RockBaby to the point where he occupied one-third of the 90,000 cubic-square-foot cage that he shared with four other eagles.

From caring for a rock to forming a link with a baby eagle, Murphy, the bald eagle, did it all.

Murphy was removed from the public eye and placed in a private area because of his violent behavior.

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The shelter announced on April 12 that Murphy was the greatest choice for the chick, even though he wasn’t a candidate at first.

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It’s all too much for my emotional state to bear. The adorable fuzziness of the baby chick’s face is hard to resist. “That mouth is really active peeping away,” the group captioned a Facebook photo of Murphy with the chick. The creature is insatiably hungry! The good news is that Murphy can count on us to provide it!