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Yes, birds can eat, well, not chili (which is a Texan dish with beans, meat, and cumin), but Chile (which is a fruit). Birds do not have the receptors to taste the capsaicin like mammals do. Therefore, they just tast the fruit/seed, not the heat. Some bird seed companies will put some capsiacin in their bird seed mix, to keep out mammals, such as squirrels who are averse to the capsaicin.

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