I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

You can see it everyday, But cannot touch it at will. What is it?

It has a long neck, A name of a bird, Feeds on cargo of ships, It's not alive,

What is it?

It walks on 4 when its young, walks on 2 when it's older, and walks on 3 when its very old?

I know a ten-letter word in the English language which can be typed using only the top rows of the computer keyboard.

Can you solve the tricky chess rebus puzzle below by ciphering the hidden meaning?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?