White-bellied Sea-eagle forked tongue

["Greg & Val Clancy" <>]

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

 

From: Birding-Aus <> On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2020 1:24 AM
To: Tony Ashton <>; Birding-Aus <>
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] White-bellied Sea-eagle forked tongue

 

It's just in a V shape, isn't it?

 

Peter Shute

 

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From: Birding-Aus <m("birding-aus.org","birding-aus-bounces");">> on behalf of Tony Ashton <m("gmail.com","tonyashton0");">>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2020 3:48:51 PM
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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

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