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.
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Bird With Missing Top Beak
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Bird With Missing Top Beak Feeding
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texdr - Yep, he/she can actually eat. It tends to scoop up the food using the bottom part of its beak.March 2, 2010 – 12:34 pm
Ramona E - Hi, Poor Thing, I think I read that it is some sort of disease.
He looks like a pale little sparrow. Can he actually eat?
BTW. I work with Leecy and happy that we have the same interests. You have a great site and really nice photos.
RamonaMarch 2, 2010 – 12:13 pm