LOOKIT HER BEAK!!! IT'S GROWING BACK YAY!!!

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PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS!!!

First, where I live it it ILLEGAL to keep these birds in your home, I work for a licensed rehab center as a provisionally licensed rehabber. I am legally allowed to care for these injured birds at my home for short periods of time but this girl is kept at the actual center.
If you find an injured bird please get it to a licensed and trained rehabilitator, without proper care from someone with proper training this bird would have died.
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This is a Swainson's Hawk. She was found caught in a barbed wire fence with an injured wing and a beak, that obviously had broken before the got caught in the fence.
Her wing has healed, she can fly.

LUCKILY her beak did break before the growth plate. So her beak WILL GROW BACK. this is actually pics of her I took after we've had her like 2 months, I won't show pictures of her originally (we keep these for reference of the progress).

She'll be with us for about a year, we will need to trim and shape her upper beak and trim her lower beak to keep it from overgrowing. Then she will go back to the wild with nice healed beak.

She is able to tear food on her own now which is a great step!

If you ever wondered what the inside of a bird of prey's mouth looked like here ya go. The hole at the back of her tongue is what she is breathing through, the sharp points just before it are her "forks" she uses to help pull meat into her mouth.
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This got removed from FA cause apparently it contains too much violence and gore and death.
Because a bird healing who will go back to the wild is violence, dead and gore. -_-

That spot of blood.. the scab fell off a few days early, herp a derp oh no.

Note: I understand rules for not wanting to post things like roadkill with guts spilling out but this was posted to my photo account for an artistic reference as well as an OMG YAY LOOK WHAT WE'RE DOING TO SAVE THESE AMAZING ANIMALS.