Seed-eating birds help with dispersal of seeds, resulting in propagation of flora. It would have been a painfully slow process for the plants to disperse otherwise. These birds, after eating seeds, fly away and some seeds, passing through their digestive tract of the bird, come out with their droppings at locations far away. If this dispersal was not happening, young plants would have been growing next to their parent plants, creating competition for space and other resources.
Seed-eating birds are threatened by the use of pesticides and insecticides that enter their food source and once these birds are affected by these toxins, these deadly chemicals move higher up in the food chain pyramid, threatening all creatures occupying the ecosystem.
This small flock of juvenile Scaly-breasted Munias was seen feeding on the seeds of grasses at Jim’s Jungle Retreat by our naturalist Jeewan Rautela.
Juvenile Scaly-breasted Munia flock feeding on grass seeds at Jim’s Jungle Retreat
