Idaho Bald Eagle With Prosthetic Beak Featured On National Geographic Channel

[Donna]

http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/idaho-bald-eagle-prosthetic-beak-featured-national-geographic-channel

Raptor biologist Janie Veltkamp met Beauty in 2007. Beauty is a 14-year-old bald eagle, and back then the bird was struggling to survive. She had been illegally shot in the wild, and lost her upper beak from the trauma. Without her upper beak – which is vital to eating – she wasn’t expected to live very long.

  Love her name!! 

"Unlikely Animal Friends" on the National Geographic channel April 30.

[MAK]

http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/idaho-bald-eagle-prosthetic-beak-featured-national-geographic-channel

Raptor biologist Janie Veltkamp met Beauty in 2007. Beauty is a 14-year-old bald eagle, and back then the bird was struggling to survive. She had been illegally shot in the wild, and lost her upper beak from the trauma. Without her upper beak – which is vital to eating – she wasn’t expected to live very long.

  Love her name!! 

"Unlikely Animal Friends" on the National Geographic channel April 30.

And what a Beautyful beak it is! 

[Carol P.]

A great story of survival with a little help from some friends.