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Title: Avian Senses


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Avian Senses
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The Avian Brain
  • Versus the Mammalian Brain
  • Forebrain
  • Midbrain
  • Hindbrain (Medulla)

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The Avian Brain
  • Versus the Mammalian Brain
  • Corpus Striatum
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Learning ability
  • Left hemisphere dominance
  • Forebrain
  • Midbrain
  • Hindbrain

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The Avian Brain
  • Versus the Mammalian Brain
  • Forebrain
  • Sensory integration
  • Learning
  • Instinctual Behavior
  • Directed action
  • Midbrain
  • Hindbrain (Medulla)

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The Avian Brain
  • Versus the Mammalian Brain
  • Forebrain
  • Midbrain
  • Vision
  • Muscular coordination/balance
  • Seasonal hormones
  • Physiological controls
  • Hindbrain (Medulla)

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The Avian Brain
  • Versus the Mammalian Brain
  • Forebrain
  • Midbrain
  • Hindbrain (Medulla)
  • Nerve centers
  • Neural connections fromspine and periphery

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Senses Sight
  • Their map of the world
  • Ocular Anatomy
  • Foveae
  • Wavelength Sensitivities
  • Field of View

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Senses Sight
  • Their map of the world
  • Ocular Anatomy
  • Cones rods
  • Shape
  • Muscular control
  • Pectin
  • Foveae
  • Wavelength Sensitivities
  • Field of View

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Senses Sight
  • Their map of the world
  • Ocular Anatomy
  • Foveae
  • Very deep
  • Central
  • Temporal
  • Wavelength Sensitivities
  • Field of View

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Senses Sight
  • Their map of the world
  • Ocular Anatomy
  • Foveae
  • Wavelength Sensitivities
  • 4 cone types
  • UV, Blue, Green, Orange
  • Oil droplets
  • Field of View

Sensitivity
Wavelength
Sensitivity
Wavelength
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Senses Sight
  • Their map of the world
  • Ocular Anatomy
  • Foveae
  • Wavelength Sensitivities
  • Field of View
  • Binocular Vision
  • Sidelong Glances
  • Head Bobbing

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Senses Hearing
  • Anatomy
  • Ear Funnels
  • Asymmetry
  • Passerine sound location
  • Frequency Sensitivities
  • Seet Calls

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Senses Hearing
  • Anatomy
  • Ear Funnels
  • vs. Pinnae
  • Wind turbulance
  • Diving birds
  • Asymmetry
  • Passerine sound location
  • Frequency Sensitivities
  • Seet Calls

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Senses Hearing
  • Anatomy
  • Ear Funnels
  • Asymmetry
  • Passerine sound location
  • Frequency Sensitivities
  • Seet Calls

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Senses Hearing
  • Anatomy
  • Ear Funnels
  • Asymmetry
  • Passerine sound location
  • Small Heads
  • Interaural pathway
  • Frequency Sensitivities
  • Seet Calls

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Senses Hearing
  • Anatomy
  • Ear Funnels
  • Asymmetry
  • Passerine sound location
  • Frequency Sensitivities
  • Seet Calls

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Senses Hearing
  • Anatomy
  • Ear Funnels
  • Asymmetry
  • Passerine sound location
  • Frequency Sensitivities
  • Seet Calls

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Senses Touch
  • Herbst corpuscles
  • Bills
  • Tongues
  • Filoplumes / Bristles
  • Wings

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Senses Smell
  • Underestimated
  • Olfactory bulbs
  • Honeyguides
  • Ethyl mercaptan
  • Burrows/mate recognition

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Senses Others
  • Taste
  • Little known
  • Few Taste Buds
  • Prey ID mainly Visual
  • Echolocation
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Magnetic Reception
  • Subsonics

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Senses Others
  • Taste
  • Echolocation
  • Oilbirds
  • Cave Swiftlets
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Magnetic Reception
  • Subsonics

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Senses Others
  • Taste
  • Echolocation
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Altitude
  • Weather Forecasts
  • Migration
  • Foraging
  • Magnetic Reception
  • Subsonics

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Senses Others
  • Taste
  • Echolocation
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Magnetic Reception
  • Migration
  • Learned
  • Subsonics

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Senses Others
  • Taste
  • Echolocation
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Magnetic Reception
  • Subsonics
  • Migration
  • Wind
  • Oceans

Threshold
Frequency
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