For the first time in decades, bald eagles are returning to the saguaro cacti of Arizona. The Arizona Game and Fish Department released a photo last week showing a pair of bald eagles and their eaglets in a nest made between the arms of a saguaro cactus.
Kenneth “Tuk” Jacobson, the coordinator of raptor management for the Arizona Game and Fish Department, explained to the Associated Press that it’s the first record of bald eagles nesting in this environment since 1937. There have been sightings of bald eagles nesting in cacti in Mexico, but this is the first time in decades biologists get to see it in Arizona.
