Feeding and watering Flashcards
What are different feeding strategies
Soft bills
Seed eaters
Carnivores
Insectivores
Nectar feeders
What is example of soft bills
Robins, jays, starlings and warblers,
Zoo examples - toucans, hornbills
What do soft bills not have
A crop
Example of frugivores
Toucans
Examples of nectarvores and what do they eat
Hummingbirds, rainbow lorikeets and honeycreepers
They eat nectar products, sugar water solutions
And soft fruits
Examples of carnivores and what do they eat
Corvids
Mice, beefhesrt, lean ground meat
Dog and cat foods
What do insectivores eat
Mealworms, wax worms, crickets insectivore pellets or dried mix
Do grainivores (seed eaters) have a crop
Yes a much larger one
What will seed eaters eat
Wheats and cereals can be combines with parrot pellet diets
How to present food and water
Most species will eat or drink from a simple bowl which should be presented sowmehere where it is less likely to have excretory waste in
