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How Bruce the beakless parrot became an alpha male.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

With a slight southern drawl, he speaks with a particular distaste for the egg industry, notorious for caging and force-feeding beakless chickens and burning through resources.

From Forbes • Nov. 23, 2013

A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Terminal spike androgynous, staminate below; perigynium small, scabrous, nearly beakless, entire.—Sp.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Perigynium thin in texture, green, oblong or lanceolate or linear in general outline, beakless; spike one, staminate above, thin and slender; stigmas mostly three.—Small, slender and grass-like.—Sp.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa