A Macaw With a New Beak

[spiritbird]

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[Lady]

Wow spiritbird what an encouraging story. I enjoyed the short video showing her using her new beak to eat for the first time.

[Casper's 2nd best friend]

Is that how a beak normally looks? It looks too short and hooked rather than long and curved and handy for hanging around on. Until I am told otherwise I will assume that it is deliberately short because a longer beak would have put too much strain on the mounting points. After all, they must know what a proper beak looks like. :)

[The Pinkertons]

I noticed that too, Their was a Galah that was born with a beak deformity they use acrylics that are formulated for nails.

[plax]

What a touchingly wonderful thing to do for that poor sweet bird. It's heart warming :). I've embedded the video into Dianne's thread starter post.


Is that how a beak normally looks? It looks too short and hooked rather than long and curved and handy for hanging around on. Until I am told otherwise I will assume that it is deliberately short because a longer beak would have put too much strain on the mounting points. After all, they must know what a proper beak looks like. :)I think you're exactly right, Jean-Pierre! They only had so much remaining upper beak material to work with and I'm sure factored in the strain that the fasteners would be able to support.

[Penny]

This is just straight awesome. A bunch of my favorite things in that article... titanium, 3D printers and the best of all, a happy parrot!