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- Dicaeum hirundinaceum - Digestive canal and crop (left) that is highly adapted for mistletoe seeds. The tongue (right) is curled inward, an adaptation to feeding on the nectar from mistletoe flowers.
www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/Loranthaceae/images/Dicaeum.gut.JPEG
- Dicaeum hirundinaceum - the mistletoe bird on Dendrophthoe, Australia. Note the mistletoe seed attached to the perch. Photo from David Attenborough's book "The Private Life of Plants".
www.science.siu.edu/parasitic-plants/Loranthaceae/images/Dicaeum.JPEG
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