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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_UN2pVDFCR8wxBe4Nyvl/sg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Mike et al., I have to comment on the olfactory sense of birds. As a generalization, it is mostly true that birds have poor sense of smell, BUT = a number of seabirds, like storm-petrels, shearwaters, etc., have very well developed powers of olfaction -- our Leach's Storm-Petrel apparently can locate its burrow (and mate?) by a combination of smell and sound. Can anyone add to this? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Mike McCall <mikemccall@xcountry.tv> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:16:38 -0300 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] RARE BIRD TO OUR AREA I'm not a terribly knowledgeable birder but I believe that apart from vultures, very few birds have any olfactory sense at all. Everything I've ever read about eagles and soaring raptors informs me that their eyes are, compared to ours, miraculous in=A0 their ability to locate prey from enormous distances. Think "Zeiss".=A0 I relate this to personal experience; a dead red squirrel, left out for days in high temperatures on a platform on which I leave carrion for crows and gulls, does not deter my avian guests in the least when the finally locate it. More knowdedgeable birders may wish to set me straight. Mike =A0A MATURE BALD EAGLE ; WE HAVE A DEAD PORPOISE ON PEMBROKE=A0BEACH ON THE GULF OF MAINE=A0, I WONDER IF IT CAUGHT THE SCENT & HOW FAR IT CARRRIES =A0=A0=A0 R. & D MORRISON --Boundary_(ID_UN2pVDFCR8wxBe4Nyvl/sg) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>FW: [NatureNS] RARE BIRD TO OUR AREA</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Mike et al., I have to comment on the olfactory sense of birds. As a = generalization, it is mostly true that birds have poor sense of smell, BUT a= number of seabirds, like storm-petrels, shearwaters, etc., have very well d= eveloped powers of olfaction -- our Leach's Storm-Petrel apparently can loca= te its burrow (and mate?) by a combination of smell and sound.<BR> <BR> Can anyone add to this?<BR> <BR> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>Mike McCall <mikemccall@xcountry.tv><BR> <B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Date: </B>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:16:38 -0300<BR> <B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>Re: [NatureNS] RARE BIRD TO OUR AREA<BR> <BR> I'm not a terribly knowledgeable birder but I believe that apart from vultu= res,<BR> very few birds have any olfactory sense at all. Everything I've ever read a= bout eagles<BR> and soaring raptors informs me that their eyes are, compared to ours, mirac= ulous in=A0<BR> their ability to locate prey from enormous distances. Think "Zeiss&quo= t;.=A0<BR> <BR> I relate this to personal experience; a dead red squirrel, left out for<BR> days in high temperatures on a platform on which I leave carrion for crows = and gulls,<BR> does not deter my avian guests in the least when the finally locate it.<BR> <BR> More knowdedgeable birders may wish to set me straight.<BR> <BR> Mike<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">=A0A MATURE BALD EAGLE ;<BR> WE HAVE A DEAD PORPOISE ON PEMBROKE=A0BEACH ON THE GULF OF MAINE=A0,<BR> I WONDER IF IT CAUGHT THE SCENT & HOW FAR IT CARRRIES<BR> =A0=A0=A0 R. & D MORRISON<BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_UN2pVDFCR8wxBe4Nyvl/sg)--
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