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Beaks, Bills and bird noses
Beaks, bills, bird noses—whatever you call them—they are important to every bird.1 They are full of live tissues, regenerating after the billing (a puffin’s form of kissing / affection), bill-wiping, eating, and defending their young. The tips of bird beaks grow constantly due to the continually wear and tear. Some bird’s beaks even grow longer [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2009 under Atlantic Puffin, Horned Puffin, Puffin, Puffins, Tufted Puffin, affection, beaks, bill-wiping, billing, bird, bird noses, choughs, colorful, common merganser, corvid, corvidae, eating, growing, mating, molting, nares, nostrils, operculum, outer sheath, protective nostril flap, rhmaphotheca, ruddy duck, seasonal color change, tips, toucan.
Tags: affection, Atlantic Puffin, beaks, bill-wiping, billing, bills, bird noses, choughs, colorful, common merganser, corvid, defending, eating, growing, Horned Puffin, kissing, mating, molt, nares, nostrils, operculum, outer sheath, protective nostril flap, Puffins, rhamphotheca, ruddy duck, seasonal color change, seasonally, tips, toucan, Tufted Puffin
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