La cicogna con la protesi al becco

**Starlite** · 19 Maggio 2009

Dalla BBC

A stork with a damaged beak has been given a new, artificial one thanks to experts at a bird hospital in Hungary.
Una cicogna col beco roto ne ga ricevudo uno novo, artificiale, grazie ai esperti de un ospedal per usei in Ungheria.

The stork damaged its beak in an accident and was taken to the Hortobagy Birds' Hospital, 180km (111 miles) east of the capital Budapest.

La cicogna se ga roto el beco in un incidente e xe stada trasportada all'ospedal per usei de Hortobagy, a 180 km ad est de Budapest.

The bird's lower beak was repaired in an operation and Tamas Kothay, a specialist in dental prostheses, built a new top beak out of synthetic resin.

La parte inferiore del beco xe stada riparada con un'operazion mentre Tamas Kothay, specialista in protesi dentarie, ga ricostruido la parte superiore in resina sintetica.

If the bird makes a full recovery it will be released back into the wild.

Se el volative se riprenderà in pien el sarà de novo libero.

Dr Deri Janos, who helped in the one-hour operation to fix the top beak, said the stork had probably broken its beak by flying into a wall.

El dotor Deri Janos, coinvolto nell'operazion de sistemazion del beco, ga dito che probabilmente la cicogna se lo ga roto andando a sbater contro un muro.

They believe the bird is about three years old.

I pensa che la cicogna gabi 3 anni.

Without the operation it would have needed hand-feeding for the rest of its life and would have been unable to return to the wild.

Senza operazion saria sta necessario nutrir la cicogna per el resto della sua vita e no la gavesi mai podudo tornar in libertà.

The bird hospital has been in operation since 1991 and has returned about 40% of its patients back to the wild.

L'ospedal per usei xe in funzion dal 1991 e circa el 40% dei sui pazienti ga rivado tornar in libertà.