Bird Top Beak Missing

I always hate seeing something like this. This is a bird that I’ve seen feeding on the bird feeders over the past week or so. From a distance, I could see there was something “unusual” about this bird, but I couldn’t tell exactly what it was.

Today I managed to get a couple of pictures of this “unusual” bird. Sadly, it appears this bird is missing the top part of its beak. It is able to eat from what I can tell, but I’m sure this bird is struggling.

I have no idea what kind of bird this is, so if someone knows, please share with me. Also, if anyone has any idea what may have caused this bird to be missing the top part of its beak (disease, another animal, etc) I’d be curious as to the answer.

In the first picture, you can see something is wrong with this bird, but you can’t necessarily tell it’s missing the top part of its beak. In the second picture, you can clearly see the top part of the beak missing.