Thanks for sharing this excellent photo........I think I would concur on the tough stuff....
Great shot!
I'd suggest the local discrete lesion on the edge of the lower bill is the result of avian poxvirus infection...likely the result of transmission by the bite of a blood-sucking arthropod (probably blackfly or mosquito)
Dave G in Estelline, SD
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