All or most birds have forked tongues. The fork is at the rear of the elevated section of the tongue. Bird tongues have an arrowhead shape section sitting on a cylindrical base section. Having handled thousands of birds for banding the tongue looks like any other bird’s tongue to me or am I missing something?
Greg Clancy
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Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] White-bellied Sea-eagle forked tongue
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] White-bellied Sea-eagle forked tongue
Hi all,
Can’t puzzle out why the bird pictured (seen at TownCommon Cons. Pk. yesterday appears to have curved forked extension to tongue.
Help!
Tony Ashton
