Starling with deformed beak? Malta (1 Viewer)

maltese falcon · Feb 7, 2010

Just back from a spot of garden watching from the bathroom window

king

. The usual 5-10 starlings where about, but today I noticed that one had a strange looking beak. The beak looked like a hoopoe's more than a starling's! Sorry no pic, camera is damaged. My questions are: Is this rare? and Will it survive?

Espen · Feb 7, 2010

maltese falcon said:
Just back from a spot of garden watching from the bathroom windowking. The usual 5-10 starlings where about, but today I noticed that one had a strange looking beak. The beak looked like a hoopoe's more than a starling's! Sorry no pic, camera is damaged. My questions are: Is this rare? and Will it survive?

I have not seen this myself but have seen a couple of pics of ones that have hoopoe like bills and they seem to survive fine if not a bit more hard work feeding.

see link:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q....birdnutz.com/img/bird/LB-Long-bill-EUST1.jpg

maltese falcon · Feb 7, 2010

That looks almost exactly like it

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