Subject: crow with bill deformity
Date: Apr 17 13:17:03 2004
From: Megan Lyden - meganlyden at msn.com


Hello Tweeters,

Our back yard feeder is visited daily by a few crows. Today, we noticed one with an excessivly long upper bill, we are guessing 3/4 of an inch; it was so overgrown that it appeared to cross the lower bill of the crow. I know Bud Anderson and members of the Falcon Research Group have noted a condition like this in Red-tailed Hawks and a few other species of raptors. Has anyone else seen this?

Megan L