Food Chain
Feeding:
Trophic Level - Heterotroph (primary consumer)
Feeding Pattern - Herbivour
Predators - False Vampire Bat
Diet - Variety of seeds, fruits, berries, and greenstuffs (such as Erythrina, Inga, Piptadenia, Copaifera, Croton, Pahystroma, Plathymernia reticulata, Ficus, and Araucaria)
The diet of the Scaly-headed Parrot is estimated to be composed of 70.4% seeds, 20.3% flowers, 7.7% corn (from plantations that surround the forest), and 1.6% fruit pulp. In the dry season flowers constitute 38% of the diet and leguminous fruits constitute 41.2%. To summarize, the Scaly-Headed Parrot eats mainly seeds, fruits, and plants. (http://eurekamag.com/research/030/914/diet-scaly-headed-parrot-semideciduous-forest-ineastern-brazil.php)
Trophic Level - Heterotroph (primary consumer)
Feeding Pattern - Herbivour
Predators - False Vampire Bat
Diet - Variety of seeds, fruits, berries, and greenstuffs (such as Erythrina, Inga, Piptadenia, Copaifera, Croton, Pahystroma, Plathymernia reticulata, Ficus, and Araucaria)
The diet of the Scaly-headed Parrot is estimated to be composed of 70.4% seeds, 20.3% flowers, 7.7% corn (from plantations that surround the forest), and 1.6% fruit pulp. In the dry season flowers constitute 38% of the diet and leguminous fruits constitute 41.2%. To summarize, the Scaly-Headed Parrot eats mainly seeds, fruits, and plants. (http://eurekamag.com/research/030/914/diet-scaly-headed-parrot-semideciduous-forest-ineastern-brazil.php)