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bill-tip organ

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  • MaryW commented on the word bill-tip organ

    The bill-tip organ was discovered by the French anatomist D. E. Goujon in 1869. . . . this organ consists of a series of pits in the upper and lower beak, full of touch-sensitive cells.
    Tim Birkhead, Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird (New York: Walker & Co., 2012), p. 76.

    May 30, 2016