Just below his eyes is a yellow beak that opens and closes as it speaks.

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And on the 500-peso notes, designers gave the island's famous blue-naped parrot a yellow beak, instead of the red beak that Mother Nature gave it.

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He opened the coop and stuck his hand in toward the fierce creature inside, eyes yellow, beak sharp as a cat's claw, trilling a warning so low it was almost a growl.

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