High winds this morning cause eagle's nest to fall

The Minnesota DNR’s web cam eagle nest went down this morning in high winds. The 6 day-old eaglet perished in the fall.

Here is the DNR’s response:

We don’t know why the nest fell, but after seeing the site we have a few theories. The most likely scenario is that the heavy snow we received during the April 1st blizzard finally became too much weight for the branch to support. The branch was dead and the nest was over 20 years old and weighed over 2,000 pounds.

These eagle nests do get large and heavy over the years from all the sticks that are added every nesting season so this is not uncommon. What is uncommon is to have this captured on video. Here is a video link documenting the nest failing.