| 1:30 |
Eurasian Jay feeds on acorns |
2:25 |
European Goldfinch feeds on
Common Teasel seeds |
2:40 |
Blue Tit cracks small seeds |
| 2:50 |
Greenfinch can remove outer shell of rose hips with tongue |
3:10 |
Hawfinch eats cherry stone: cracks shell, then removes papery husk |
3:55 |
Common Crossbill opens green pine cones, swallows clay to absorb resin (California) |
| 6:12 |
Eurasian Jay stores up to 9 acorns in crop, buries up to 3,000 a month. |
7:35 |
Acorn Woodpecker stores up to 60,000 acorns in tree - constant maintenance (north America) |
10:20 |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drills holes and sips pine sap |
| 12:10 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler drinks from Sapsucker wells on aspen |
12:40 |
Bullock's Oriole and
Ruby-throated Hummingbird drink from Sapsucker wells on birches |
13:45 |
Scale Insect drinks tree sap, hummer and warblers drinks from honeydew (Mexico) |
| 16:00 | Cows chew on leaves |
16:20 |
Barnacle Goose feeds on grass and poops undigested parts; can fly straight up. |
17:35 |
Speckled Mousebird feeds on Acacia leaves, digests in sunlight (South Africa) |
| 18:30 |
Hoatzin has bacteria in 2nd stomach to ferment leaves (South America) |
19:15 | Plants attract birds with nectar |
19:30 |
Rainbow Lorikeet has brushy tongue to lap nectar (Australia) |
| 21:00 |
Orange-breasted Sunbird pollinates Heather plant (South Africa) |
21:50 |
Golden-winged Sunbird pollinats
Lion's-Claw flower (Mount Kenya) |
23:10 |
Black Flower Piercer steals nectar from hole in trumpet of
Datura flower (South America) |
| 24:20 | Hummingbird drinks from hole made by Flower Piercer |
24:50 |
Sword-billed Hummingbird pollinates long trumpet of Datura plant and
Banana Passion Flower flowers |
25:30 | Hummingbird tongue adapted for nectar feeding |
| 26:10 |
Purple Coral Tree attracts many birds (Thailand) |
27:30 |
Knobbed Hornbill disperses seeds (Indonesia) |
28:05 |
Bohemian Waxwing disperses berries (northern Europe) |
| 28:30 |
Kokako disperse berries (New Zealand) |
28:40 |
Resplendent Quetzal dosperses avocado seeds (South America) |
29:35 |
Rufous-tailed Jacamar catches
Peleides Blue Morpho Butterfly |
| 30:15 |
Rufous Woodpecker eats ants, has stiff tail feathers (southern India) |
31:45 |
Eurasian Nuthatch picks insects out of bark (Europe) |
32:25 |
Greater Spotted Woodpecker chisels for grubs in bark, has harpoon at tip of tongue |
| 33:30 |
Woodpecker Finch uses cactus spine to dig grubs from trunk (Galapagos) |
36:05 |
New Caledonian Crow uses stick to irritate huge grub from log |
40:45 |
European Robin finds grubs rooted out by
Wild Boar and humans |
| 42:20 |
Seychelles Magpie finds grubs kicked up by
Seychelles Giant Tortoise (Seychelles) |
43:45 |
Cattle Tyrant follows
Capybara (South America) |
45:35 |
Red-billed Oxpeckers feed on ticks on
Hippopotamus : 2 toes forward and 2 back for clinging |
| 46:40 | Oxpeckers eat earwax and dandruff on Zebras and Giraffes, and drink blood from
Impala |
49:10 | Giant crane used to study canopy of tropical rainforest (Venezuela) |
49:30 |
Emerald Toucanet disperses avocado seeds;
Red-and-green Macaw eats the seeds |
| 51:00 |
Hyacinth Macaw eats palm seeds |
51:40 |
Yellow-crowned Parrot and various parrots ingest clay to counteract poison in seeds |
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Index 
Peter Chen
