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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

Sword-billed Hummingbird , Colombia Bills come in all shapes and sizes. Aptly called the tube-nosed birds, on account of their raised and highly visible nostrils, these species are able to hone in on oceanic food from several miles away, based on smell alone. The longest bird bill relative to body-size.

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