
Taryn Leach, a naturalist at the World Bird Sanctuary of the St. Louis area, holds a bald eagle named McGwire on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, as Quad Cities Bald Eagle Days kicked off at the QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island. This year's event will be Jan. 5-7. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON
The eagles may have been the stars, but plenty of other animals got their time in the limelight this past weekend during the 2023 Quad Cities Bald Eagle Days event at the QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island.
That annual event – a celebration and educational seminar of almost all things centering around wildlife – attracted thousands of people to the Quad Cities from Friday through…

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