I first saw and photographed this Steller's Jay in my yard in May 2007. I assumed the bird could not long survive with the upper mandible of its bill broken off at the base. But I saw and photographed the same bird in my yard more than a year later in July 2008 and again in September of that year, and finally again in April 2009 -- it had survived two years since I first saw it. The bird also apparently had a mate with a normal bill, also shown in this gallery.