Drilling the bark of trees with a chisel-like bill, the woodpecker exposes the tunnels of wood-boring insect larvae. It flicks in its tongue (up to 6 inches long in the Green Woodpecker) and stabs the grubs with the barbed tip to withdraw them.
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