MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • November 19, 2023
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. There are a few groups of birds that do have remarkable senses of smell, including albatross, petrel, turkey vulture, chickadees. ~ Herb Wilson