“…It was observed that there were significant differences among species in the number of pleats forming pecten oculi. A large number of pleats were found in birds such as ostrich (Korkmaz & Harem, 2021;20-24 pleats), American crow (Braekevelt, 1994;22-25 pleats) and Australian galah (Breakevelt & Richardson, 1996;20-25 pleats), while the birds such as the Barred owl (Smith et al, 1996;8-10 pleats), duck (Moselhy & El-Hady, 2019;10-14 pleats), and Black kite (Kiama et al, 1994;12 pleats) had few pleats. As a result of the present comparative study, the number of pleats in sparrow, hawk, magpie, swan, heron, pheasant and duck was determined to be 14-16, 15-17, 27-30, 10, 11-12, 20-21 and 12, respectively. When the study results were examined, the magpie, a small bird from the Corvidae family and included in the Pica pica family (Kaplan, 2019), had a small eye.…”