Images show bald eagle’s beak healing from gunshot wound

Images show bald eagle’s beak healing from gunshot wound

After surviving a likely gunshot wound in July, a bald eagle in Missouri is showing an important sign of recovery–keratin growth on his severely injured beak. According to World Bird Sanctuary, a nonprofit that treats and houses injured raptors, it’s taken nearly nine months and seven surgeries to get the bird’s beak growing again. “While this growth is still no guarantee that the keratin will regrow over his entire beak, it gives us hope that w…