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Parrots are seed-eating birds, and essentially herbivorous, with many species also frugivorous (fruit-eating). Most eat fruits, and the nectar and pollen of flowering trees.

The reason parrots can eat what they do is that they have strong curved beaks ideal for cracking hard shells of seeds and nuts, including gumnuts in Australia. They also have feet which are adapted to being able to hold foods like seeds and nuts as they crack them. Parrots can stand on one foot, and hold their food in the other foot.

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