Rain Forest Birds

Rain forests are unequaled in their richness of bird species. A knowledgeable, patient visitor may see hummingbirds, parrots, toucans, pigeons, cuckoos, flycatchers, tanagers, finches, and in Costa Rica the Quetzal (pronounced "ketzel").

Toucans eat avocados, plucking them from trees and using beak and tongue to devour the skin and flesh. They spit out out the seed.

A majority of the 9,672 species of birds on earth, inhabit our rain forests. They play an important part by dispersing seeds throughout the forests.

As our rainforests have become depleted, many bird species have become endangered as their nesting sites have vanished.

 

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