This is Jackie, one of our frequent boarders. Jackie is a beautiful african grey. She also appeared on The Morning Blend TV show a few months back.Jackie's upper mandible was bitten off by an umbrella cockatoo. In the past, many vets would have recommended putting the bird to sleep or perhaps trying a prosthetic beak.
Jackie has adjusted to her predicament amazingly well. She plays with toys, talks, gets around her cage -- pretty much everything that a "normal" bird can do.
Pretty much the only accommodation Jackie's owner has to make for her is feeding her soft foods, like Harrison's mash, and occasionally filing down her lower beak.
Yet more proof of how amazingly resiliant birds are!
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