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June 14, 2008

Beauty and the beak

Beauty, a bald eagle, sports a new artificial beak -- a temporary one that allows her to eat, drink and look regal until her final surgery.

Beauty has been recuperating at the Birds of Prey Northwest ranch in Idaho since she was shot by a poacher three years ago.

She was found scrounging for food and slowly starving at a landfill in Alaska in 2005.

The bullet had shattered her curved upper beak, leaving her tongue and sinuses exposed.

According to an Associated Press article, the Boeing Co. and a maker of artificial skin in California have agreed to fashion the new permanent beak for the 15-pound bird.

(AP Photo by Young Kwak)

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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