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Many of the beasts have comical attributes: feathered elbows, parrot beaks or sail-like membranes on their heads.

“Suddenly with a plop, the egg landed on the straw. With clucks of pleasure the hen shook her feathers, nudged the egg with her beak, and left,” Goodall wrote almost 60 years later.

But before you put on your 17th century “air-purifying” beaked mask, let’s find out from the experts why this disease is still around and how dangerous it is now.

Terror birds were top predators - they could be taller than a human and had powerful legs and hooked, flesh-ripping beaks.

Bedecked with emerald green feathers and a rose-red beak, the ring-neck parakeets have become the star attraction at the Waterworks Park.