Taken on 07/04/2018
This is possibly the worlds rarest Jackdaw! It has a sub-lingual oral fistula! According to Dr Jim Reynolds from Birmingham University,, who studies this phenomenon, this is the first record of it in a Corvid! (Crow species) A sub-lingual oral fistula is where the skin & muscle of the lower mandible is missing causing the tongue to protrude through the opening & often outside the mouth cavity permanently! So yes, that 'growth' under it's beak is actually the Jackdaws tongue sticking out through its throat!!
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Nikon D7200
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