EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Pollination is an important process for flowering plants to survive. Since most flowering plants cannot pollinate on their own, they have to rely on other animals. Many small birds, such as sunbirds and hummingbirds are key pollinators.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ornithophily can be defined as the transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of a flower with the help of birds. Ornithophily is the bird pollination. Examples of different bird pollinators are humming birds and sunbirds.

Detailed explanation-3: -Note: Some of the examples of the ornithophilous plants are, bottle brush, red coral tree, and silk cotton and examples of birds are hummingbirds, sunbirds, honeyeaters, and honeycreepers, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ornithophilous flowers are the flowers whose pollination is done by birds. To attract birds they have to produce a lot of nectar and also have tubular structure so that birds can suck the nectar well.

Detailed explanation-5: -The birds which are involved in this type of pollination which are known as ornithophily are specialized in the nectarivores. This is the type of pollination that occurs in the flowering plants by the birds. This type of pollination is mostly found in the birds that have long beaks like hummingbirds.