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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

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Sword-billed Hummingbird , Colombia Bills come in all shapes and sizes. Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Most appear to have a very limited sense of smell and mammals appear to have better developed olfactory glands.

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