Do birds have teeth? That is in some ways a trick question. Birds do not have true teeth. But they are born with one special “egg tooth”. An egg tooth is a hard, tooth-like bump at the tip of the beak.
The egg tooth is the baby bird’s escape tool, used to break out of the egg shell.
It falls off shortly after hatching.
This penguin looks like it has teeth. But what it really has are fleshy bristles that help the bird to grasp and swallow slippery fish.