If anyone who has seen any birds with deformed beaks, please report the 
observation here: 
https://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/landbirds/beak_deformity/observerreport.php

On Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 7:51:53 PM UTC-7, [email protected] 
wrote:
>
> I found this chickadee with deformed beak in my yard yesterday.  There may 
> be even one more chickadee like this hanging out in my yard because I got a 
> brief look at one today with just extra long beak and not twisted.
>
>
> [image: DSCN4127.JPG]
>
> According to some research, such birds carries a new form of virus but 
> scientists haven't established the causal relationship between the virus 
> and the deformed beak yet  (
> https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/twisted-beaks/). Time to 
> sterilize the feeders again *sigh* 
>
>

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