Question

bio What is ornithophily

Answer 1

It is pollination of flowering plants by birds

Answer 2

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This is the resources of allogamy performed by birds. Only a few type of birds are specialised for this. They usually have small size and long beaks. Two common types of tropical pollination birds are sun birds and humming birds.

• Humming birds perform pollination while hovering over the flowers. Sun birds are always alight atop the shoots supporting flowers or sometime rest over the flowers.

• Some other pollination birds are crow, parrot and meynah.

• Common birds pollinated plants are Bombax (Red silk cotton) , Erythrina (coral tree), Agave etc.