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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

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But how birds use these different senses, like the diversity in bill size and shape, varies almost as much from species to species. Chickens come in at around 24, pigeons have around 40-50 and some duck species may have a whopping 400. The longest bird bill relative to body-size.

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Business Birding Basics – part II

10,000 Birds

The antwren had been elevated to species level and Hilton is just a sucker for anything Paulista, and besides, who needs a reason to go birding? Apart from a juvenile Southern Beardless Tyrannulet we were just seeing roads and factories. It is possible to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat. Of course, the trip was a disaster.