Show splitting birds tongues the united states biological survey says that the popular belief that splitting the tongues of certain birds will enable them to speak words like parrots is without foundation the tongue of a bird plays little part in the utterance of sounds crows magpies blue jays brown th brashers thrashers thra ra and some other birds often learn to articulate words and sentences crows and magpies in particular can often be taught almost as well as parrots but their ability in this respect is not favorably affected by any operation performed on the tongue |