Poor Beauty the Bald Eagle…the top of her beak was severely damaged by a shotgun blast from a hunter, leaving her unable to eat prey. She was found in 2005 and turned over to a bird recovery center in Anchorage, Alaska, then eventually to a center in Idaho called Birds Of Prey Northwest that specializes in raptor birds. Without a beak to tear her food with, Beauty must be hand-fed strips of meat and has difficulty drinking and preening. The linked article says that the director of the center met a mechanical engineer, who, moved by the bird’s plight, has offered to design a prosthetic beak made out of nylon composite material. The prosthetic, which will be glued onto the remnants of her upper beak, would allow her to eat more normally, but would not restore her to a point where she could be released to fend for herself in the wild. More pictures of Beauty and other raptors being cared for by the center here.