A bald eagle named Beauty had its beak shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. So a team of volunteers worked to attach an artificial beak to the wounded bird and help save her life.
She could not survive in the wild without human intervention,” Jane Fink Cantwell said.
The 15-pound eagle was found in 2005 scrounging for food and slowly starving to death at a landfill in Alaska. Most of her curved upper beak had been shot away, leaving her tongue and sinuses exposed. She could not clutch or tear at food.Beauty was taken to a bird recovery center in Anchorage, where she was hand-fed for two years while her caretakers waited in vain for a new beak to grow.
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