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Name: donna
Status: student
Age: 17
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 2000-2001
Question:
what is the large mass or growth, on the eagles beak....

Replies:
If you are referring to the area by the nostrils that seems to raise above the upper mandible, I believe the structure is called an operculum. I know that is the term with pigeons, and I believe it is true with all birds having this raise on the upper mandible. I could be in error.

Steve Sample
York High School
Elmhurst, Illinois
60126

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