[EBB Sightings] Curly corvid

Dear EBBers,]
	Today, while sorting through 8-10 Steller's Jays for the Cornell Feeder
Watch, I noticed a Steller's with extreme bill curvature that forced him to
eat seed with the side of his head near the ground:  both upper and lower
mandibles were decurved more than 180 degrees, curling back under his gape.
I marveled that he was surviving, maybe thanks to the feeding stations. 
Earlier this yea I had seen a Steller's with upper mandible curved down
over the lower, and am wondering if today's sighting is a more advanced
stage of the same bird?  I'm in northeast Berkeley. Good sightings.

Terry Coddington
tlcodd at earthlink.net
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