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Birding: Do birds have a poor sense of smell? Not all of them

Por: Portland Press Herald Sports November 19, 2023

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We know that birds have remarkable vision and hearing. However, the received wisdom from ornithology texts is that birds have a poor sense of smell. This claim is based in part on the rather unimpressive size of the olfactory lobes of a bird’s brain. These lobes extend anteriorly in the skull, underlying the bill where the external nostrils are located. There are a few groups of birds that do have remarkable senses of smell. The tubenoses... + full article



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