Question

Can birds hear or smell???
If yes how??​

Answer 1

Explanation: yes

Hearing is birds' second most important sense, and their ears are funnel-shaped to focus sound. The ears are located slightly behind and below the eyes, and on most birds they are covered with soft feathers called auriculars for protection. On bald birds, however, the ears can often be seen as small holes on the sides of the head. The shape of a bird's head can also affect its hearing, such as owls, whose facial discs help direct sound toward their ears. The confusingly named ear tufts of many owls and other birds, however, have nothing to do with hearing.

Birds hear a smaller frequency range than humans, but they have much more acute sound recognition skills. Birds are especially sensitive to pitch, tone, and rhythm changes and use those variations to recognize other individual birds, even in a noisy flock. Birds also use different sounds, songs, and calls in different situations. Recognizing the different noises is essential to determine if a call is warning of a predator, advertising a territorial claim, or offering to share food. Many birders study those calls and birding by ear can be useful for not only identifying birds but also understanding their behavior.

Some birds, most notably oilbirds, also use echolocation, just as bats do. These birds live in caves and use their rapid chirps and clicks to navigate through dark caves where even sensitive vision may not be useful enough to find their way.

smeLL

The sense of smell is the least developed sense for most birds. Most bird species have very small olfactory centers in their brains, and they do not use smell extensively. This debunks the myth that nesting birds will reject a fledgling that has been handled by humans: Songbirds cannot detect the human scent.

There are some bird species, however, that have much better-developed senses of smell. Vultures, kiwis, honeyguides, albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters all use their keen sense of smell to locate food sources. These birds can often smell food from great distances, even when the odor may not be noticeable to humans.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Smell: While most birds seem to lack much power of smell, there are some groups of birds that can locate food using their olfactory glands. Extensive research into bird senses has shown that vultures, seabirds, kiwis and parrots have well-developed olfactory glands, giving them some sense of smell and taste.

Hear: Hearing is birds' second most important sense, and their ears are funnel-shaped to focus sound. The ears are located slightly behind and below the eyes, and they are covered with soft feathers the auriculars for protection.

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