BEAK FROM THE DEAD.A BUDGERIGAR budgerigar (bŭj`ərēgär'): see parakeet. whose beak beak or bill Stiff, projecting oral structure of birds and turtles (both of which lack teeth) and certain other animals (e.g., cephalopods and some insects, fishes, and mammals). was torn off in a fight is being kept alive by her caring mate who feeds her every time she chirps. The yellow-faced blue began to starve when she couldn't pick up food, and staff at Glasgow Zoo feared she'd have to be put down. But thanks to the loving attention of her life-long mate, the budgie budgerigar, budgie see melopsittacus undulatus. budgerigar fledgling disease a polyomavirus infection of young psittacines that causes failure of feather growth, hepatic and renal necrosis, and sometimes death. is regaining strength after the incident. And living on a diet of pre-digested seed passed to her in a budgie-kiss, she looks as if she'll survive until her shredded shred n. 1. A long irregular strip that is cut or torn off. 2. A small amount; a particle: not a shred of evidence. tr.v. upper beak grows back. Manager Richard O'Grady said yesterday the six-inch-long bird had probably lost her beak in a dispute with another female over a nesting box. He said: "We think she was fighting with another hen over a disputed next box. They will fight very very aggressively to protect their nest. "When we found her we thought she wouldn't have a chance as they rely on their beaks to pick up food. "But she just kept getting stronger and then we realised it was the mate keeping her alive." Mr O'Grady said the birds had been partners for about five years and would carry on mating as long as they were together. Now whenever she chirps the yellow-faced grey male shuffles to her on the perch, regurgitates his food, and then squirts it into her mouth. "All she has to do is make plaintive plain·tive adj. Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy. [Middle English plaintif, from Old French, aggrieved, lamenting, from plaint, complaint; see plaint. noises and he feeds her. Without his help she is pathetic and keeps trying to shovel up food with her lower beak, but to no avail. "Normally it would be curtains. But the partner hiccups Hiccups Definition Hiccups are the result of an involuntary, spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm followed by the closing of the throat. Description food up from his crop and passes it over. "She should live long enough for her beak to grow back, which will take around four or five weeks." |
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