Editing Amazon basin (section)

=== Birds ===
{{Main|Birds of the Amazon}}

About 1,500 [[bird]] species inhabit the Amazon basin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0305.htm |title=Diversities of Image |last=Butler |first=Rhett |date=31 July 2012 |website=Mongabay.com |access-date=20 December 2014}}</ref> The [[biodiversity]] of the Amazon and the sheer number of diverse bird species is given by the number of different bird families that reside in these humid forests. An example of such would be the [[cotinga]] family, to which the [[Guianan cock-of-the-rock]] belong. Birds such as [[toucan]]s, and [[hummingbird]]s are also found here. [[Macaw]]s are famous for duck gathering by the hundreds along the clay cliffs of the Amazon River. In the western Amazon hundreds of [[macaw]]s and other [[parrot]]s descend to exposed river banks to consume clay on an almost daily basis,<ref>Munn, C. A. 1994. Macaws: winged rainbows. National Geographic, 185, 118–140.</ref> the exception being rainy days.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Brightsmith D. J. | year = 2004 | title = Effects of weather on parrot geophagy in Tambopata, Peru | journal = Wilson Bulletin | volume = 116 | issue = 2| pages = 134–145 | doi=10.1676/03-087b| s2cid = 83509448 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/209843 }}</ref>