The answer

Halfbeak is singer-songwriter Tim Gum. Halfbeak is also the name of one particular Melbournian crow with unfortunate beak shortcomings whom Tim once knew. So let's see.... One Spring day in the grassy shimmer of a suburbian yard, out sprang one shook, scruffled, starven, buiscuited and bewildered crow with a glint in his eye and a bottom beak a mere half of its former glory. With half a beak not of much use for much, particularly the essential magpie pursuit of hunting, this is where the story of our little crow might have ended....

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