"Beauty" is an Alaskan bald eagle whose beak was shot off several years ago. She was found in 2005, unable to properly hunt or eat. She was taken to a refuge, but her beak did not grow back. Biologist Jane Fink Cantwell has spent the past two years assembling a team to design and build an artificial beak.
The nylon-composite beak will be glued on, so it won't be strong enough to rip flesh as a normal eagle does, but will allow Beauty to drink normally and eat food she is given.