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Northern Cardinal

Don't know if this meets the criteria for a deformed beak but, I'll run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. It was taken near my backyard feeder during the Great Backyard Bird Count. I had never seen a beak like this before. It probably is just broken.

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Posted by LowellS
on Mon, Apr 13 2009 7:16 PM
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Chuck Hagner wrote re: Northern Cardinal Female
on Tue, Apr 14 2009 10:32 AM

I think you're correct, Lowell: It looks like this female somehow managed to break off the tip of her upper mandible. She's still a pretty bird, though! Thanks for sharing it with us!

 
 
Rez Photography wrote re: Northern Cardinal female
on Tue, Jul 20 2010 11:53 AM

Yeah that's what it looks like, she broke off her upper mandible still very beautiful female cardinal!! Thanks

 
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Atypical Birds

The Atypical Birds Gallery features photographs of birds with albinism, melanism, leucism, erythrism, schizochroism, or other plumage abnormalities, as well as birds with structural malformations, such as beak deformities. Digiscoped images welcome!

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