Tale of Beauty and the beak

SHE has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty’s beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food.

A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her alive.

“For Beauty it’s like using only one chopstick to eat. It can’t be done,” said biologist Jane Fink Cantwell, who operates a raptor recovery centre in this Idaho Panhandle town. “She has trouble drinking. She can’t preen her feathers. That’s all about to change.”