http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/rouge_river/bills.html



Funny but I was reading about this the other week, we were talking about
deformities in other birds and a Crow just happens to be on this list :-)



Martyn :-)



Martyn Stewart
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Redmond. Washington. USA
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!

The Spring is cum
The grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is?

The birdies on the wing!
Nah, that's absoid
D' wing is on d' boid!
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From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu
[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Megan Lyden
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 1:17 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: crow with bill deformity



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