An overgrown beak is a fairly common problem in pet birds. This condition happens when your bird’s beak grows excessively, interfering with their ability to eat, drink, and even climb.

A bird beak is the most important resource it has, and every species has one solely designed for survival. Birds use beaks for just about everything: building nests, feeding their young ...

However, simple overgrowth is probably the commonest ... beak care can be looked at as part of the normal grooming routine of your bird. The beak should be clean and the upper and lower parts ...

“normal” beaks (examples shown of a petrel and a gull) and a bird with a tactile bill-tip organ (a tinamou, close relative of ostriches and emus and which has an ancestral bill-tip organ ...