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Owl chick with egg tooth

Owl chick with egg tooth - Picture 1 of 5 in Reproduction

A close-up of a Great Horned Owl chick being comforted by it's stand-in parent - A feather duster. Note the Egg tooth on the end of it's beak, which it used to break out of the egg. This egg tooth falls off not long after the chick is hatched.

Photographer: Sigrid Noll Ueblacker  All images subject to © Copyright

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