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Very muscular organ used to grid food in birds is called the

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Crop Gizzard Correct Proventriculus Beak

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The gizzard or ventriculus is a thick-walled muscular stomach in birds that grinds ingested food aided by swallowed grit, compensating for lack of teeth. Crop stores food, proventriculus secretes gastric juice, and beak captures food but does not grind.

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