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The perching bird Coereba flaveola as a co-pollinator of bromeliad flowers in southeastern Brazil
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Canadian Journal Of Zoology-revue Canadienne De Zoologie. Natl Research Council Canada, v. 77, n. 1, n. 47, n. 51, 1999.
0008-4301
WOS:000081598800007
10.1139/cjz-77-1-47
Autor
Sazima, M
Sazima, I
Institución
Resumen
Hummingbirds are the only previously recorded bird pollinators of ornithophilous bromeliads in southeastern Brazil. We studied the pollination of three species of Bromelioideae by the Bananaquit Coereba Slaveoln, a perching bird. Flowers of the bromeliads Aechmea bromeliifolia, Aechmen distichantha, and Acanthostachys strobilacea are visited by this perching bird, as well as by hummingbirds. The Bananaquit perches on the inflorescences and probes within the narrow corolla with its slender bill, fully opening the flower in order to reach the nectar. Although they look somewhat "plundered," the flowers visited by the Bananaquit are pollinated during its periodic visits to the plants. 77 1 47 51