This is an amazing animal story.. A Bald Eagle named Beauty got a brand new beak! She was rescued three years ago from slowly starving to death in an Alaskan landfill, after a poacher’s bullet removed her beak, leaving her tongue and sinuses exposed.
She was taken to a rescue and hand fed while her caretakers waited in vain for a new beak to grow, until an engineer volunteered to try and make Beauty an artificial beak.
A gold and titanium pin was glued to the remnant of her upper beak to serve as the guide for sliding the nylon-composite, artificial beak into place. It was a success! Beauty looks beautiful again and more importantly can eat on her own!
After spending so much time around humans they’ve determined that even with her new beak in place, Beauty does not belong back in the wild. But she will be traveling around the country, participating in lectures to help teach people not to shoot wild birds.
Plans are in place to construct a more permanent version of the beak, The Boeing Co. and a maker of synthetic skin in California have already volunteered for the miraculous task.
Please read the complete story of Beauty the Eagle with an artificial beak on CBSnews.com.
