Beauty

Beauty is a Bald Eagle who is far from being beautiful. A couple years ago, Beauty's upper beak was shoot off by a gun. Because of this injury she cannot drink, eat or preen her feathers. She was found in an Alaskan landfill slowly starving to death. For two years now she has been hand fed salmon strips by caretakers at a bird recovery center in Anchorage, Alaska. Now she is having a surgery to get an artificial beak. Veterinarians, dentists and other experts are planning to glue the artificial beak on. The reason they are not screwing in the beak because the stump of the remaining beak is to close to the brain. If the glue does not hold then they will use screws.

Bald eagles represent freedom and liberty to many American humans. It is so cruel that someone tried to shoot Beauty. Especially a bald eagle that is an endangered species. Sometime I think humans can be so heartless towards animals.

Bald eagles have brown and white feathers and are not bald. They are the national bird for the United States. Due to a pesticide called DDT, bald eagles where nearly wiped out after WW11. DDT was a pesticide that humans put on their crops. Some of the pesticide would wash into rivers and be absorbed by aquatic plants which where than eaten by fish which were eaten by bald eagles. DDT stopped the ability for bald eagles to produce strong eggshells. Most eggs would crack and the ones that did not crack did not ever hatch. In 1972 the United States banned DDT as a pesticide. Other threats to bald eagles are lead-poisoning, hunters, and drinking water that had lead in it. Today bald eagles are still endangered species.