An eagle underwent the world’s first beak transplant to a bird of prey, so that it could use it to eat again, after its beak was shattered in a car accident some time ago, according to the British Daily Mail website.

The injured eagle was on the verge of death after it was severely damaged after a road accident, and it was transferred to a conservation center in South Africa, after it lost its left eye and its hooked beak, which badly needed to eat..

The eagle with the doctor

The images reveal how Professor Katja Koeppel, a prominent wildlife veterinarian, gave the bird a second chance at life after the success of her pioneering operation.

She said: “This miserable white vulture has been hit hard by a car and its beak is broken, and without a new beak it will starve to death. It was brought to us by the Vulture Conservation Centre.” VulPro To see if there was any way the important hook part of the beak could be reconstructed to save her, we tried twice with prosthetic acrylic beaks but they weren’t strong enough and they tore when they were feeding, so we had to come up with a plan to think outside the box..”

Installing an eagle’s beak

Stages of processing the eagle to grow a new beak

The procedure for transplanting the beak of a dead bird into a live bird is believed to have been performed only once before on a duck in New Zealand..

But the new duckbill only had to deal with chomping on soft earthworms and pondweeds, while the eagle slashed through tough flesh.