Birds Smell

It'll probably be a movie someday because, really, don't we all love it when someone stands up to the negativity and incredulity of the "experts" and proves conventional wisdom wrong? This is that kind of story. The myth that birds don't have a strong sense of smell was started, amazingly enough, by John James Audubon himself. Since then, several individuals have devoted their working lives to dispelling it. One of them, Gabrielle Nevitt, has spent the last two decades and endured much discomfort studying avian olfaction ~ in her case, in seabirds in particular: http://www.audubonmagazine.org/articles/birds/birds-can-smell-and-one-scientist-leading-charge-prove-it