A Northampton woman discovered a two-headed, three-beaked baby bird on Monday.
April Britt, 67, told the Daily Hampshire Gazette that she found the deformed bird near the base of a tree in the back yard of her Hinckley home. Britt said she picked it up to return it to its nest and to the pair of cardinals inside.
She told the paper that the bird didn’t make any sound that she could hear and appeared to only be able eаt with assistance from the adult birds in the nest. Britt said the bird’s middle beak didn’t work well and the partially formed beaks on either side didn’t appear to be connected to the bird’s throat.
Tom Lautzenheiser, regional scientist for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, told the paper that abnormalities like the one Britt found do occur from time to time. He said that in most cases, animals with such ѕeⱱeгe deformities do not survive to birth, and the ones that do usually perish a short time after.
